I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in your present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go.

You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)

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

What if two people want to be your partner, then what?

Some of my very closest friends are my guy friends, going back to the third grade, so I believe in the integrity of the male-female friendship.

Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.