“No matter how old you are, theres no cozier feeling than to have your mom take care of you.”

“I'm supposed to eat shit with a fork and a knife and say thank you when I'm done swallowing this crap?”

“Its actually quite the contrary. Its time to freak the fuck out, and thats not just acceptable, its obligatory. The rug has just been pulled out from beneath your feet, and everything you thought y...”

“Sure, occasionally a certain sappy song or romantic movie would come on, and youd wonder what he or she was up to, but there was no way to know. Of course, you could always pick up the phone (and m...”

“And finally, always remember that the other person started it.”

“The most surprising thing about breaking up is that you already know how to do it. Everything you need to know, you learned in kindergarten. Yours should always be better than his (especially when ...”

“The heart was made to be broken.”

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. Its his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”

“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”