Let the girl who can’t find love find it right under her nose.
When your heroine must choose one thing or another, let her figure out that there’s always a third option that may let her live her life on her own terms.
Never underestimate the power of a French woman.
To paraphrase Chekhov, if there’s a (smoking, smoking, smoking) gun on the wall in Act One, someone better die of lung cancer by Act Three.
Every story needs a trickster named Roger.
Sometimes, in story as in life, the most annoying character gets to fly off into the horizon in a Lear jet.
