At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.

The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.

I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.

He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.