“Learn to recognize good luck when it's waving at you, hoping to get your attention.”

“If you get to live your life over, make the same mistakes -- only sooner.”

“Quincy and Jake seem to be content to spend an enormous amount of time along together, which I count as romantic, but might simply be because they don't have a child: the Blues versus the world.”

“Make mistakes -- just don't keep making the same goddamn ones.”

“Festering with regret changes not one thing.”

“Many complain of their looks, few of their brains.”

“Awkward Day noun An antiholiday, Awkward Day is a heinous day filled with insecurity, vulnerability, and tension, created to highlight the newness of a romantic relationship and to test the living shit out of it. If you make it through Awkward Day, your relationship has legs. Good news is that it only lasts one day, if that long. Bad news is that it’s tedious and you might not have that new boyfriend by the end of it.”