“J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.”

“I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up.”

“‎You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner!”

“Didn't you ever have a father yourself? You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.' So I figured it's because I never had a father that I don't want one now. A person can't miss something she never had.”

“You should never wish for wishful thinking.”

“I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.”

“People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.”

“The kind of person that thanks another person never survives. Have you learned nothing?”

“You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.
And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.”

“Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eighth or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise you know? 'oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought”