“Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.”

“Love your life. That's a direct route to something people used to call "happiness".”

“General [De Gaulle], you must not hate your friends more than you hate your enemies”

“Too many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them, or I'm gonna make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's lookin' for my own peace of mind; don't assign me yours.”

“Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”

“In every family there is a murderer, a thief and a crazy person. And if you have a little Blue blood in the line, you can be sure there are more than one of each.”

“Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.”