Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.

Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.

If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.

I don't really want to be the costar of anyone's life.

And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. - Van Houten

People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.