I think there is a Paris inside us all.

Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days.

The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.

Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.

I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.