“The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didntwork out the first time.”

“You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there.”

“The rest of the girls out there are just shooting stars," Simon whispered into my ear. "They're on a crash course to nowhere. But you, my lady friend, you're a black hole. You've sucked me in, and ...”

“But it was not the note that counted so much as the writing of it.Just because it wouldnt last forever out there didnt mean it hadntexisted. thats why I was there. I was there for a moment. Andbeca...”

“The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didn’twork out the first time.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”