“Whenever you break up with someone, you don’t just break up with one person. You break up with their family, their friends and their dog. It’s sad, inevitable and kind of annoying.” — Gemma Burgess Copy Share Image
“The spark is the feeling that you´d rather be talking to him than any other person in the world.” — Gemma Burgess Copy Share Image
“Am I meant to not reply to Josh From HR’s texts, do you think? Hell, maybe I am. Maybe he liked me the way I like Adam The Tick Boxer. Maybe every single person in London is hoping for a text from someone else, and we’re all connected in a chain of waiting. I wonder who’s at the top of… — Gemma Burgess Copy Share
“Maybe Plum was right. There are no good men. Only different degrees of bad ones.” — Gemma Burgess Copy Share Image
“Abigail,’ he says. ‘I thought it was you.’ ‘Hi!’ I say loudly. ‘Mark!’ ‘Who?’ says Robert. Fuck, he doesn’t know his real name. Why do I give everyone stupid nicknames? ‘I almost don’t recognise you out of your SKINNY JEANS,’ I enunciate carefully. He’s wearing grey flannel trousers and a pink T-Shirt with leather Converses. He speaks clothes exceptionally confidently… — Gemma Burgess Copy Share
“Suzanne: I’d rather be single than in an unfulfilling relationship.” — Gemma Burgess Copy Share Image
“That’s the spark I’ve been looking for. The spark is the feeling that you were born to be this happy. And that’s how I… — Gemma Burgess Copy Share Image
“Robert clears his throat. ‘So, ladies and gentlemen, if I may, I’d like to encourage you to turn to the one you love – or, if you are between loves right now, then the nearest person of the opposite sex, provided of course that their significant other doesn’t mind – and tell them that you love them. No caveats, no… — Gemma Burgess Copy Share
“I've discovered the secret to successful singledom. I'm acting like a man. And it's working.” — Gemma Burgess Copy Share Image
“Your chest is surprisingly hairy.’ ‘I hope I can’t say the same thing about you.” — Gemma Burgess Copy Share Image
“Sorry. Did you know you giggle in your sleep, by the way?’ ‘Really? How adorable of me.” — Gemma Burgess Copy Share Image
“What are you doing here, anyway? You don’t strike me as the speed dating type.’ ‘I lost a bet with Alfie,’ he says. ‘You met him at The Cow that day . . .?’ Waistcoat Guy, I think, nodding. ‘I said to him that if you didn’t text me back then I’d try speed dating, because I’m officially the worst… — Gemma Burgess Copy Share
