It makes you realize how basically everything we do comes down to a) mating or b) competing for resources. It’s just like Animal Planet, only we’ve got Cover Girl and Victoria’s Secret instead of colored feathers and fancy markings, and the violence occurs at the Nordstrom’s Half-Yearly Sale.

You take care of the people you love, but it’s true, too, that you take care of the things you own.

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days...No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.

A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and let go?

It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.