I have rules for life, but not for love. If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

Real love still happens sometimes. It's not just something we make up when you're nine. I have to believe that. You do too.

Say it to them. Or say it to yourself in the mirror. Say it in a letter you'll never send or in a book millions might read someday. I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying 'I could've, but it's too late now.'

When I was a teenager I felt like we were always being stereotyped as being really intense and dramatic and passionate and hopelessly romantic and excitable, now in retrospect I think I need to let you know those things are amazing. I hope you never lose those things.

It's not our job to make people like us if they don't.