I’ve never enjoyed myself more than I have the past forty-eight hours, during which I’ve been trapped in a car with one of the worst drivers I’ve ever seen, run up the Spanish Steps and then down again so I could be on time to wait in line to perjuer myself at the American consulate. And I’d like to continue doing those sorts of thing with you on a regular basis for the foreseeable future.

Jesse, who had not stirred the whole time from the spot he'd been standing, confident I could handle Cheryl myself, was grinning. "It's every girl's dream to guy to go to prom with the guy she loves?" he echoed, not just one, but both inky black eyebrows raised. "Don't start with me," I said. I tried to hide my suddenly flaming cheeks by scraping away what was left of the cannolis, and replacing them with the contents of an upended bag of chocolate chip cookies. "I have things to do.

I like 'em big. And stupid. Don't tell my husband.

I don't do alcohol. Or other people's boyfriends. And don't you forget it.

Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.

I didn’t know what I was supposed to say about that, so I just said, "Wow

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.