Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane

Alex: Rosie, I wanted you to be the first person to no that I’ve decided to become a heart surgeon! Rosie: Cool, does it pay well? Alex: Rosie, it’s not about the money. Rosie: Where I come from, it’s all about the money. Probably because I don’t have any.

Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.

I don't know why, but there's always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button, that doesn't ever want to leave the dark behind.

When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things really don't matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have.

I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.