I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

In the two months I had also dated Justin Fellowes, this guy in my Spanish class, though after three weeks we decided we should "see other people," which in my case was a joke, but it beat hearing him remark on everything I ate. 'I don't know why girls are always on a diet,' he'd say when I ordered a Diet Coke, and 'You should watch your starch intake' when I had a muffin.

I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.

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

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.