“Think about meeting your goals, not about wining over someone else”
“You should never start thinking about 'what might have been,' and you should also never start thinking about another boy when you're heartbroken over someone else.”
“Your mind needs a goal or it will continue to think about the past.”
“The Gamma paused. “You have a crazed werewolf in your wine cellar?” “You can think of a better place to stash him?” “What about the wine?”
“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”
“In some ways the goals of teaching and writing are the same. You hope to connect to someone else, to make them care about what you care about. So that the things which matter, the things that matter to you, matter to them.”