Hester Browne > Quotes

“The best friendships are like mobile phones, I think--you can't explain exactly how they work, but you're just relieved they do.”
― Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple

“The Elephant of Depression wasn't just parked on my chest, it was relaxing there with the Walrus of Gloom and the Hippo of Bleak Friday Nights in Alone. They had beers. They were settling in.”
― Hester Browne

“There are many marks of a true lady but I believe that one of them is to walk with her head held high while her world falls apart around her.”
― Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency

“It's so much easier to have a crush on someone who you know isn't going to respond-it makes it nice and safe and you never have to humiliate yourself by getting knocked back.”
― Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency

“Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes, the special occasion is that you’ve got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge.”
― Hester Browne

“Just because some man pays you some attention doesn't mean you're somehow obliged to devote your life to him. You're worth MORE than that.”
― Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency

“There is something rather sexy about men who knew exactly what they are talking about. Men who might not be conventionally attractive, but who are obviously highly competent at their jobs.”
― Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency

“I'm not that nice," I said. People were always telling me how nice I was. You'd think it would be a compliment, but it was amazing how sometimes it just felt like a kinder way of saying "blah." "I just keep my horrible side well hidden.”
― Hester Browne, The Runaway Princess

“Want a partner who can make you feel secure and loved, so you can reach your full potential. Someone who can inspire you and encourage you to try again if things don't work out. Someone who loves you for who you are, not who you might turn into, or who you once were.”
― Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency

“My golden rule has always been to look on the bright side, no matter what. With all the complications in my life, I had to. Because if you can find three good things in any given situation, no matter how dire, I guarantee you'll forget the rotten stuff.”
― Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency

“Appearances can be deceptive. Just because someone has a generous chest and a romantic nature doesn't mean they're EASY.”
― Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency

“The way he looks at me, all serious and attentive, was more flattering than any compliment I'd ever had”
― Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency and the Prince

“There's a difference between compromising your independence and compromising yourself. Love's about giving up a little dependence, darling. But that doesn't mean you have to stop being you.”
― Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple

“Fashion is a cruel mistress.”
― Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency

“Stress can make people say things they don't mean, though. That's why you have to relax.”
― Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple

“He told me yesterday that weddings should be individual celebrations of a couple’s relationship, ideally with just the bride and groom and a humanist minister. Everything else is merely social pressure to eat tiny cakes.”
― Hester Browne, The Honeymoon Hotel: escape with this perfect happily-ever-after romcom

“Outside, I avoided the gazes of passersby and slid gratefully into the cavernous interior of Godric's car. I didn't like to say "This is yours?" because wherever I placed the stress in that sentence, it sounded faintly insulting. It felt as if I were sitting inside a very pricey black leather handbag. Things glittered at me, and the bits that weren't leather or glittering were sort of dull black. It all smelled wildly expensive.”
― Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple

“[The photos] all bore the hallmarks of very expensive lighting and artistry, but Godric was projecting variations on the same emotion in every single one of them. Acute awkwardness.
Admittedly he'd really gotten "awkward" nailed--even in black Armani, leaning against a glass wall, he looked like a teenager waiting outside an STD clinic.”
― Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple

“As with most situations in my life, Emery's dress was much harder to get out of than it had been to get into.”
― Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency

“Back in the kitchen, Mummy was trying to make her [knitted] hippo stand up on the table. I had to swallow a gasp of horror -- its head was the same size as its body, none of its limbs were equal in length, and it appeared to have a fin. She didn't seem perturbed and carried on trying to make it stand with a childlike patience.
Because of its grotesquely misshapen head, it looked as if it was trying to do some kind of yoga headstand.
"That hippo's got five legs," observed Allegra from the window seat. "Unless you've made it very anatomically correct? In which case it's positively disturbing.”
― Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple

“Great friendships are like cell phones, you do not know why they work but are so glad that they do.”
― Hester Browne

“My mind seemed to think in terms of very bad song lyrics these days.”
― Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple

“I want to share all of my New York with you, Melissa. My house, my friends, my life. It's not just about where you live, what you have. It's about who you are with. I know you get that, and I can't tell what it means to me.”
― Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple

“Amanda sat him next to ME at dinner because she said I could talk to anyone.'

'Well you can.'

Jo looked wounded. 'That's not somthing you should PUNISH your friends for”
― Hester Browne, The Runaway Princess

“... don't expect Nicky to provide some kind of happily ever after for you. Because it's not up to him, it's up to you.”
― Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency and the Prince

“his growling by coughing with the effort. It was, after all, very early for him. ‘Do you realise I just about keep that place afloat? There are not one but two champagne cocktails named after me.’ ‘Well, I haven’t seen the papers yet myself, but if you look in this morning’s Daily Mail,’ I said serenely, ‘you will see a story in the gossip column thing, all about how Prince Nicolas of Hollenberg has been banned from the notorious society—’ ‘The Daily Mail?’ demanded Nicky. ‘Hang on, there’s a copy here.’ I heard scrabbling.”
― Hester Browne, What the Lady Wants

“reportage photos ”
― Hester Browne, The Honeymoon Hotel: escape with this perfect happily-ever-after romcom

“... men who don't respect women -- they're pretty unattractive. And women who date men who don't respect women are pretty stupid. That's just asking to be taken advantage of. You need to stand up for yourself."
Nicky nodded thoughtfully.
"Personally," I went on, with feeling. "I don't go in for pretending to be ditzy. It's just a waste of time. I miss enough as it is -- I don't need to make people think I'm more dense. And grown women pretending to be schoolgirls is just . . . ugh.”
― Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency and the Prince

“I followed him as closely as a three-legged racer toward the bar.”
― Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency and the Prince

“Never actually having owned a dog myself, I wasn't sure what the correct procedure was. Did I offer to pay for the morning-after pill, or something? Should I insist that Braveheart marry her?”
― Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple