Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

I think you’re amazing,’ someone says to someone else, but it doesn’t matter who, because they’re all amazing really. People are amazing.

but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.

For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get in. The SIM card of his mobile phone in his pocket was overflowing with telephone numbers of all the hundreds of people he had met in the last ten years, and yet the only person he had ever wanted to talk to in all that time was standing now in the very next room.

I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!