Quote by Helen Fielding

“Bridget. Sleeping with a twenty-nine year old off Twitter on the second date is not 'rather like in Jane Austen's day'." (Talitha)”

— Helen Fielding

“Bridget's fiancé keeps giving her late-night booty calls. Although he has to ring at midday so she can get there in time.”

— Bridget Golightly

“Bridget decided she should at least enjoy some of the advantages of having a pretend boyfriend, especially the 3 Fs. Flowers. Fine Dining. Fine-looking…

— J. Lynn

“A friend once told Megan that we are always seventeen years old, waiting for our lives to begin. More than ever, clutching to this…

— Harlan Coben

“Dating is poetry. Marriage is a novel. There are times, maybe years, that are all exposition.”

— Ada Calhoun

“Texting is like kryptonite to women’s standards. It erodes them, like gentle ocean waves slowly, over time, destroy a beautiful dune.”

— Jessi Klein

“She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at…

— Barbara Pym

“I’ve had 24 girlfriends in my life, and all of them occurred in the same two-day evening.”

— Jarod Kintz

Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and every housemaid expects at least once…

— Bertrand Russell

“She also remade the bed with her crispest, nicest sheets. It was probably time to sleep with him. O h, yes, it was a…

— Liane Moriarty

“Always is their thing. They’ll always love each other and whatever. I would conservatively estimate they have texted each other the word always four…

— John Green

“I've no plans to couple with anyone other than my new bride for the next century or so, and it feels as though it's…

— Leigh Ann Edwards