Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.

if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.

If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.

I don't believe in writer's block.

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.