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.

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.

Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.

He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.