“I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.”

“I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didnt even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew Id found a solid group of friends...”

“I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.”

“If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you dont, thats wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, dont shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surfac...”

“The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.”

“When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams, because they didnt want to appear muscle-y, when at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings, I decid...”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”

“I am the perfect version of me.”

“But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world.”

“I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.”

“That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get i...”

“Alice suspected Paul couldnt really picture his father, just like she couldnt picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.”

“I want, I dont want.How can one live with such a heart?”