“Pursue your goal. Opinions be damned.”

“She wasn't used to being the kind of woman whose house had a study. It sounded to her like she lived on the damned Clue board.”

“Like war, love - all kinds of love - is for men who can take it. If they dare.”

“Accentuate the positive - eliminate the negative. And only the negative.”

“How will you know if you found me at last 'cause I'll be the one with my heart in my lap.”

“No pressure, no diamonds”

“Borderline means you’re one of those girls……who walk around wearing long sleeves in the summer because you’ve carved up your forearms over your boyfriend. You make pathetic suicidal gestures and write bad poetry about them, listen to Ani DiFranco albums on endless repeat, end up in the emergency room for overdoses, scare off boyfriends by insisting they tell you that they love you five hundred times a day and hacking into their email to make sure they’re not lying, have a police record for shoplifting, and your tooth enamel is eroded from purging. You’ve had five addresses and eight jobs in three years, your friends are avoiding your phone calls, you’re questioning your sexuality, and the credit card companies are after you. It took a lot of years to admit that I was exactly that girl, and that the diagnostic criteria for the disorder were essentially an outline of my life.”