Why I'm single
- friend : do you like anyone at school?
- Me: no
- friend : do you like anyone at church?
- Me: no, not really
- friend : do you think anyone in this mall is cute?
- Me: no
- friend: why don't you like anyone?
- Me: because fictional guys have caused me to raise my standards too high
She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Ch. 23


