A break up is the closest thing to bereavement

If you didn't feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do

As soon as I laid eyes on him, it all came flooding back, all the reasons why I loved him, all the reasons why I hadn't been able to let him go.

New York is a glorious place for clearing your head and finding inspiration. Every time you step outside, you live a dozen lives.

But I did go back and soon I realized why. I was in love

Hawaii was paradise, Milan was beautiful but New York was electric.

Al: Now, remind me, who's walking who down the aisle again?

Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It's telling stories.

It's interesting how much you can tell about someone from their friends.

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

Getting married means you've won, and I hate thinking like that, I do, but let's be honest, that's just how it is. Until you're married, you're a loser, NO MATTER HOW GREAT YOU ARE AT EVERYTHING ELSE. In our super progressive, equal right, modern society, it's the one thing no one wants to say but everyone is thinking, however messed-up it is.

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

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.

I had always been warned that American didn't always get sarcasm

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

Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.

It's OK not to be OK.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Nothing like a bit of flattery to grease the wheels.

Was I happy? Maybe more content thanbouncing-off-the-sofa-like-Tom-Cruise-ecstatic, but that’s still happy isn’t it?

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

People go to LA to "find themselves", they come to New York to become someone new.

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