Just when you thought you knew everything about someone, they had to go one better.

The point of the list wasn't just to tick items off and forget about them, it was to learn something new.

New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something

I wasn't in love with Simon any more. I hadn't been in love with Simon for a long time. I was in love with not being on my own, with having someone there at the end of the day and now I knew I didn't need that. My heart was not broken over him: it was breaking for the things I had wanted from him. And I didn't want them any more.

I couldn’t remember the last time things had been so easy.

Why did people insist on telling you not to panic when the only rational response to what they’re about to say is panic?

I may as well have told him I'd carried a watermelon

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.

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