A Girl Like You Quotes

“I've discovered the secret to successful singledom. I'm acting like a man. And it's working.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“The spark is the feeling that you´d rather be talking to him than any other person in the world.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“Most things in life are only as difficult as you allow them to be.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“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, A Girl Like You

“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 feel right now.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“Sorry. Did you know you giggle in your sleep, by the way?’
‘Really? How adorable of me.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“It’s braver to stay. It takes courage to stay. I am sure I speak for all the single people here when I say that I don’t want to ever lack that courage. I don’t want to lose my best friend and my true love, just because I wanted to
stay in control and not take a risk. Even if they walked away, even if
they ran to the other side of the world, even if I thought that I didn't have a chance in hell, I still want to know that I did everything I could
to make it happen.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“Lick hand. Sprinkle salt. Do the shot. Suck the lemon.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“Maybe Plum was right. There are no good men. Only different degrees of bad ones.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“The French have the perfect word for it: 'flaneur'. It means to stroll around aimlessly but enjoyably, observing life and your surroundings. Baudelaire defined a flaneur as 'a person who walks the city in order to experience it'.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“It’s always easier to walk away.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“You have to let it go. You can’t control everything in life”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“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 limited time only, no terms and conditions: be true
to yourself, take a risk, and tell them you love them. To love!”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“It's not revealing, it's informative.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“And I’d rather leave than be the one left.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“Suzanne: I’d rather be single than in an unfulfilling relationship.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“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 single man in London.’
‘You’re not!’ I say. ‘I mean, it wasn’t a bad date. I was just . . .’
‘Don’t say you were drunk! It’s the biggest post-sex insult ever.’
‘. . . drunk, I mean drinking, a bit more than I ought, and I was, uh, cringing at the thought that I’d been a nightmare date.’
‘No. You were great,’ says Mark/Skinny Jeans.
‘Actually, the biggest post-sex insult is “we did?”’ says Robert. ‘But that’s another story.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“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 the chain?
Robert’s phone beeps. He picks it up, reads the text, makes a derisive little snorting sound and puts it back on the table without replying.
That answers that question, then.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“Oh Abby...I want you to know...I am so full of shit. You should not listen to me. I know nothing.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“Your chest is surprisingly hairy.’
‘I hope I can’t say the same thing about you.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“Even if they walked away, even if they ran to the other side of the world, even if I thought that I didn’t have a chance in hell, I still want to know that I did everything I could to make it happen.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“they asked if I’d ever considered leaving banking and I said every single fucking day of my life.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“They use the M as an anchor to get the doughnut and then there's an escalator to nowhere.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“Plum smiles, sighs, and shakes her head. ‘No. You know, I thought Dan was a good guy. Maybe there are no good guys left.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“Churchill had a black dog. I have singledom,’ she says, exhaling theatrically. ‘I will die alone.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You

“That's what I didn't understand about her before: she wasn't boring. She was just bored.”
― Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You