I'm very quiet and shy in my personal life, as hard as that is to believe.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.

Coffee is cheap, drinks are an audition, lunch is an interview, but dinner means business; the business of romance.

Most people can't find love because they're picky, they overanalyze and they find things wrong in people. We call them flaw finders.

It's not easy to date when you're hefty. Besides I like feeling thin because it makes me feel amorous.

f you have been divorced once - male or female, but especially for females - and you’re over 40 you’re actually a commodity. It means you were able to commit once, and you’ll do it again.

If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.

If you're going to get engaged make sure you've talked to your partner about life together in the years to come.

I'm a very stereotypical person... and that's part of my flavor, I guess, because I tell it like it is.

We have all loved a guy we know has issues. Despite popular opinions, until we give it a final try, the relationship will always be in the 'what if' stage.

I realize that I cannot say enough. So. Since I cannot say enough, at least I will avoid saying to much".

If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.

What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception.

Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.

If you look at any designer you admire, whose work inspires you, and whose approach somehow resonates with you, I promise you'll find a person who does not think of what they do as just their job

The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

There is no good way of measuring poverty.

Wisdom had rather be buffeted than not listened to.

Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that?