“A break up is the closest thing to bereavement”

“Nothing like a bit of flattery to grease the wheels.”

“If in doubt, cheese has been always the answer..”

“Sometimes we have to try on a few different personalities before we found ourselves.”

“Sometimes things need shaking up. You’ve got to test the limits.”

“People change. Sometimes I think they don't know they're changing until it's already happened, though. You get so used to being one person, it's weird when you wake up and everything is different.”

“I wasn't just crying about Will. I was crying about Seb and Shona and my job and my sister's aggression and my parent's refusal to be proud of me and Lauren's wedding and every last shit little thing that had happened to me from birth, from the big disasters like puberty, to the things that didn't even seem to matter at the time, like when I put milk in my tea last Thursday and then found out it had gone off.”

“You haven't been fired," Mary said with a sigh. "You always jump to the worst possible conclusion. Why on earth would you be getting f”

“It is an undisputed truth of the modern age that there are now only two kinds of people in the world: people who call and people who text.”

“A friendship forged in the fires of adversity is a strong as one that has weathered the test of time.”

“But sometimes there's a difference between being needed and being taken advantage of.”