When it all come down to it, the thing that matters most in a relationship is principles [...] We have the same idea what’s right and what’s wrong, and that’s got us through any number of things. If you can have that with someone, then you’re most of the way toward love. Not just lover-love. Any kind of love.

I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.

I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.

This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.

Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.

i wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.

One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.