“It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.”

“In other words, every party will be permitted to contend for their truths so long as they acknowledge that they are their truths, and not the truth. Each will be permitted to propagandize, each will have to propagandize if it is to hold its own, because it is acknowledged that there is no common ground for the alternative to propaganda, which is reasonable persuasion.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size”

“It's a truth universally acknowledged...”

“In the spirit of slumber parties, I want to have a sleepover and invite only narcoleptics.”

“People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?"I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.”