“I can only give you some hints. You have to place him in a situation where your advantages are magnified.”

“All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.”

“One of the advantages of having an imaginary boyfriend is that he exists only for you, therefore he can not be stolen. The disadvantage is that you can not introduce him to your friends.”

“...if you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.”

“I did not flirt with him; I was being courteous, since you were making the entire situation completely awkward.”“Good, he should have taken the hint.”

“Any friendship that is worth its weight is like a dark and secret place where you hide bits of yourself. The door can be opened only by the two people who have the key, and you carry it with you wherever you go. Magnify that by a billion, and you begin to get an idea of what marriage is like.”