“But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?”

“I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”

“I've sequenced the questions for maximum speed of elimination, I explained. I believe I can eliminate most women in less than forty seconds. Then you can choose the topic of discussion for the rema...”

“If you really love someone,' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.”

“Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept”

“An inability (or reduced ability) to empathise is not the same as an inability to love. Love is a powerful feeling for another person, often defying logic.”

“Because what could be more Casablanca? Suddenly Harlow saw that what shed always wanted was a man of principle. A man of action. A domestic terrorist. Every girls dream, if she cant have a vampire....”

“I watched as Humphrey Bogarts character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship with Ingrid Bergmans character, and chose logic and decency ahe...”

“We'll always have Paris.”