Top 40 Alexandra Potter Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “With endings come new beginnings.”

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2. “Life isn’t complicated. It’s very simple, really. It’s us who make it complicated.”

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3. “Why is it that when you discover you can’t have something, you want it even more?”

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4. “You can’t make yourself fall in love, just as you can’t choose who you fall in love with.”

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5. “But I figure you’re never too old to learn. That’s when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore...”

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6. “Life can change in the blink of an eye. All you have is right now. So don’t ever put off telling someone how you feel about them, don’t assume that they know, because they might not and it might be too late.”

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7. “We are the sum total of our memories. Memories are the most precious things we have. Good or bad. That’s what make us who we are. What would we be without them?”

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8. “Forget men, I want to marry my MacBook. It’s dependable, reliable and you can even go shopping with it.”

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9. “If you want a man who’s commited, go look in a mental hospital.”

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10. “For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.”

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11. “If only men were like New York taxi-cabs and had a light that they can switch on when they’re interested and off when they’re not available. Then you’d know exactly where you were and you wouldn’t have to worry about getting it wrong and being horribly embarrassed. – Lucy.”

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12. “But, you know, everytime your heart is broken, it gets stronger.”

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13. “You’re not too old, it’s not too late, and yes you can.”

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14. “I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a real relationship with a real man in the real world–-with all the real problems, faults, and whatever comes with it.”

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15. “Because you will meet somebody more exceptional than anyone you have ever know. Who will love you warmly as possible. And who will so completely attract you that you will feel you never really loved before.”

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16. “Life doesn’t hang around, it keeps moving and if you don’t keep up you can lose things.”

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17. “Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.”

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18. “Too many people miss out on real love because they’re too busy waiting for the ONE to show up.”

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19. “If the worst is going to happen, it’ll happen. Worrying can’t protect you from that. And if it doesn’t happen then you’ve missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun.”

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20. “And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside. It was the sound of her heart breaking.”

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21. “It’s not getting what you want that’s the hard part, it’s deciding what you want.”

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22. “It is always the silly things that remind me.”

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23. “I don’t understand it myself, really. It’s like the idea of him is better than the him of him.”

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24. “I always thought falling in love was hard, but now I realize that was the easy bit. It’s staying in love that‘s the hard part.”

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25. “Their eyes met. It had begun. They had begun.”

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26. “I never stopped joking around long enough to realize you weren’t laughing anymore.”

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27. “Is that how you’re supposed to find your soulmate and fall in love these days? By flirting in 140 character tweets and stalking each other’s social media pages?”

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28. “He hadn’t lost Grace. Because she’d never been his to lose in the first place.”

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29. “I was in love with the idea of him. An ideal of him. Of who I thought he was. Of who he used to be.”

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30. “Time has a funny way of airbrushing relationships, removing all the things that were wrong so when you look back it looks much better than it really was.”

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31. “They probably didn’t care if it was the real thing or not. They wanted it to be. And by suspending their disbelief they could believe in the illusion.”

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32. “Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.”

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33. “Goodbye, Dr Goldstein.′ I start to walk away, then stop and turn. ‘Oh, and for the record my name’s Charlotte.’ And turning back, I keep on walking. Somehow I don’t think that’s a name he’s going to forget in a hurry.”

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34. “I’ve learned if there’s one gift you can give yourself in life, it’s the freedom and courage to say “I don’t know”. Because I’ll let you into a secret – you don’t have to know. You don’t have to know how you feel, or what you want, or if you’re happy or if you’re sad.”

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35. “It’s true what they say: life does go on and joy does return, and often it’s in the most unexpected of places,’ she continues, ’but you never get over losing someone; you just get better at coping with it.”

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36. “To you I shall say, as I have often said before, ‘Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last ‘. – Jane Austen.”

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37. “Don’t worry about getting older, worry about becoming dull.”

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38. “Embrace your sense of humour, don’t ever take yourself too seriously, every day is another chance to laugh instead of cry, and when nothing is certain, everything is a hell of a lot less scary when you make fun of it. Amen.”

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39. “They don’t do it to be cruel. Quite the opposite. I’ve found friends and acquaintances keep their distance because they don’t want to upset you or say the wrong thing. What they don’t realize is you’re already upset beyond anything they could ever say or do. It’s their silence that upsets you. You feel isolated. Abandoned.”

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40. “Because now there’s two of us. And two of us makes a tribe.”

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41. “Because sometimes happiness isn’t a choice. Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can’t find joy. Which is why I’ve decided to stop beating myself up by desperately seeking happiness and give myself the permission to feel exactly how I feel, when I feel it. In fact, maybe, it’s not happiness we should be looking for after all – but acceptance.”

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42. “But that’s one of the good things about getting older: often the most terrible of things turn into the most amusing through the lens of time.”

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43. “If getting older has taught me one thing, it’s that I feel so many conflicting things about so many different things, and to negate or stifle any of them doesn’t make them go away. Emotions don’t necessarily have a moral compass. Feelings can’t be shamed into disappearing. Suppressing and ignoring them will only make them come back to bite you in the therapist’s chair.”

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44. “I don’t want to spend whatever time I have left looking backwards. I want to look forwards. To new things. New places. New adventures. Otherwise I’m just living a life where a part of me is missing.”

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45. “No one ever died of cellulite or wrinkles.”

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46. “Word by word, page by page,’ Cricket tells her cheerfully, ’that’s how a writer writes and how a reader should read. You’ll get there in the end. Doesn’t matter if it takes six months or a year or longer to finish it. That’s what I always used to tell my husband.”

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47. “I once read that life should not be about the number of breaths you take, but the number of moments that take your breath away.”

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