Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Bridget Jones, #3)

by Helen Fielding

We cannot avoid pain, we cannot avoid loss. Contentment comes from the ease and flexibility with which we move through change.

On grief and loss

But at least there is always food.

My life

‘THEY ARE CHILDREN!’ Mr Wallaker roared. ‘They are not corporate products! What they need to acquire is not a constant massaging of the ego, but confidence, fun, affection, love, a sense of self-worth. They need to understand, now, that there will always – always – be someone greater and lesser than themselves, and that their self-worth lies in their contentment with who they are, what they are doing and their increasing competence in doing it.’

Over programmed kids