Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

We weren't friends[...]We were more like jigsaw pieces, each of us part of the same big picture. There are people like this wherever you go. They are part of the same mystery as you are, but you can't quite tell how you fit together. The world is a puzzle, and we can't solve it alone.

Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.

Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

Fetching objects for people who are too lazy to fetch them for themselves is never a pleasant task, particularly when the people are insulting you.

Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren’t virgins, Min. That’s why there’s people to begin with.

It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes; it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. It is the way love gets done despite every catastrophe.

It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.