“Just because you're from a small town doesn't mean that you're small. Don't ever think anyone's more important than you are or has more valid experiences.”

“Watch out for men who love something more than themselves or you. Their passion can be your prison.”

“Happily ever after is not a place: It's a state of being, and you have to work at it every day.”

“Talking with Sweetbread, I wonder if that's what love is: the ability to go away and to come back again as if nothing has changed, even though everything has changed.”

“I don't know where this story ends, Bubby, and that's okay.”

“But really, all memories are like paintings: They can be incredibly vivid and lifelike. But in the end, they both just remind us that we only get to live any particular moment once, even if we remember it forever.”

“Vulnerability is a pretty scary thing. You can feel naked in a lot of different ways.”