“Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”

“Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah”

“Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.”

“To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.”

“If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling.”

“I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard.”

“Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she's just nuked in the microwave. Every woman who will get into bed tonight with a book or reruns of Sex and the City as her only companion. You are our shining hope....But no pressure.”

“Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project. I refuse to rush. The pain that is thrust upon us let no man slow or speed or fix.”