He was my escape, and sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love.
—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Whether or not he still wanted me, I knew he wouldn't want anyone else to have me.