“For everyone knows that a girl cannot live on chicken cordon blue alone.”

“And always John, who is my own Gilbert Blythe, my real life Mr. Darcy, and the love of my life.”

“Curiosity often plagued my soul more than I could bear.”

“This young gentleman was like something from out of a leather-bound book!”

“...Oh god. I'm one of those girls.""What girls?" he asked, perplexed."Those girls. The ones in all those books and TV shows. Some dumb high school girl falls in love with some supernatural guy, and he's all, 'Behold, I am five million years old!' and she's all, 'Oh my god, how can you ever love pathetic little me!' and he's like, 'Because of destiny!' or whatever. It's just so...ew. You know?”

“I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book”

“Have you ever noticed that every now and then you'll overhear an amazingly clear declarative sentence when you're out in public, spoken with such force and purpose that you absolutely yearn to know what it means, because it is just so forceful and crystalline? And you want to follow along behind whoever just spoke, even though you don;t know them, just to find out what that sentence means and how it would affect the lives of the people involved?”