Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his phrases. Until her discovery of Something Fresh on the top shelf of Ruth's bookshelf one bored summer morning, Frankie's leisure reading had consister primarily of paperback mysteries she found on the spinning racks at the public library down the block from her house, and the short stories of Dorothy Parker. Wodehouse's jubilant wordplay bore itself into her synapses like a worm into a fresh ear of corn.

Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.

When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be

Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.