I got back in my car, starting the engine, then drove off. It wasn't until I pulled onto the highway that it all really sunk it, how temporary our friendship had been. We'd been on our breaks, after all, but it wasn't our relationships that were on pause: it was us. Now we were both in motion again, moving ahead. So what if there were questions left unanswered. Life went on. We knew that better than anyone.

Fall in love with someone who truly deserves your heart. Not with someone who plays with it.

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.

He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling.

…You don’t want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests of times, each one topping the last. You know?

People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less

All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.