I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

Then he asks if he can kiss me. It is a question I don’t usually like. Just do it, I always think.

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell. I wonder what will someday bring back Dex and our few months together. Maybe the sound of Dido's voice. Maybe the scent of the Aveda shampoo I've been using all summer.

Which always raises the interesting question of whether redheads pursue other redheads in a narcissistic way, or simply, because they have no other choice, as nonredheads aren't interested.

And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one.