“When you dig just the tiniest bit beneath the surface, everyone's love life is original and interesting and nuanced and defies any easy definition.”

“Sometimes divorce isnt an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes its just two people waking up out of a fog.”

“And heres why it worked: man or woman, gay, straight, bisexual, you name it, we all just want to be teased.”

“Whats that saying? Behind every gorgeous woman, theres a man sick of screwing her? Well, it works both ways. No one mentions that part.”

“Why have I spent so long settling for less when I know damn well the world expects more?”

“You should know this about the rich: they always want to get richer. It is never boring, getting your hands on more money.”

“What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when youre so ugly on the inside?”

“You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.”

“Nothing fortified me, and simple loneliness all but destroyed me, yet I felt swamped by the belief that life must mean something- otherwise why was it there? Why was anything anything?”

“In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.”

“You don't know when you're twenty-three.You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're goin...”

“Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.”

“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.”