Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad.

I had always been warned that American didn't always get sarcasm

I wasn't in love with Simon any more. I hadn't been in love with Simon for a long time. I was in love with not being on my own, with having someone there at the end of the day and now I knew I didn't need that. My heart was not broken over him: it was breaking for the things I had wanted from him. And I didn't want them any more.

New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something

And this was why falling for the butterflies was never a good idea. I didn't feel all bubbly and excited now. I felt cold and broken and empty.

Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.

A break up is the closest thing to bereavement