“If you didn't feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do”

“Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.”

“I had always been warned that American didn't always get sarcasm”

“Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad.”

“I wasn't in love with Simon any more. I hadn't been in love with Simon for a long time. I was in love with not being on my own, with having someone there at the end of the day and now I knew I didn't need that. My heart was not broken over him: it was breaking for the things I had wanted from him. And I didn't want them any more.”

“...These things come to an end, like anything else. There's nothing worse than staying when there's nothing to stay for.”

“I love you because you always have a T-shirt under your pillow for me, even if you don't know I'm coming to stay. I love you because you know I want sugar in my tea in the morning but not at night and because you always pretend you forgot I wanted a skinny hot chocolate in Starbucks because you know I really prefer full fat but don't like to order it in case the girl behind the counter thinks I'm fat.'Alex started to smile. So I carried on.”