But I tended not to date men who ever showed up for me.

Dating a wo/man with a child is adoption … without the paperwork.

When you decide to meet—in person—someone that you met online, would you then be taking your relationship to the ‘previous’ level?

I met a woman who told me she wasn’t attracted to Asians. No worries, I said. I’m not attracted to racists.

[…]patience is the weapon that forces deception to reveal itself. It is the insurance against being deceived or making wrong decisions. Some things can only be made known by waiting. God takes his time.

You do realize that you were in your 20s when that show was on. So, that would mean that you had a crush on a 12 year-old.

I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I...

A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.

Halfway to the house Stan stopped and turned to Jane. He put his hands on her shoulders and drew her toward him.”I’m glad we’re going steady,” he whispered.”So am I.”In spite of the reassuring weight...

Simon’s love life was complicated, but there was a pang, just for a moment, for this woman talking graphic novels with him. Ah, well. Tessa Gray, foxy nerd, was probably dating someone already.

I tried to tell them about the dating process because I’m single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but...

Well?” Ron said finally, looking up at Harry. “How was it?”Harry considered it for a moment. “Wet,” he said truthfully.Ron made a noise that might have indicated jubilation or disgust, it was hard to tell.”Because...

Let’s start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely. I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts. But...

For our first date we went Dutch. We would have gone another nationality, but they are the tallest.

I met a girl today, and she wants to go out tonight. I’m like, What’s the rush? I’m thirty years old, and fate has made me wait three decades to meet you, so what’s another...

A good friend will help you to discover the potentials you haven’t uncovered. A bad friend will help you to cover up the potentials you have already recovered. Make your choice!

In life, it is important that we act fast. If you don’t act fast and act now, someone else will do exactly what you have thought of doing. Someone else would have fired while you...

… at thirty-two she had less dating experience than the average high school student.

Now, a month later, I sit, foggy, a similar state of mind, in a different seafood restaurant with a locals-know-every-secret bar, two happy hour martinis downed, fidgeting with my napkin below the lip of the...

I hope we gave them that sense of belonging because I know there’ll be times in their lives when grasping at those bonds could mean the difference between making it and not.

In my mind, I saw a string stretching from Henry’s heart at Quiet Waters to my heart. It was taut and it vibrated with Henry’s worries and fears and I felt them all.Deeply. I felt...

Every rose has it’s thorn, but that doesn’t mean you have to put up with a ton of pricks.

In his experience with women, it was difficult to recover once things began to go wrong–once they had unreasonably decided that you were a person with whom they were not under any circumstances ever going...

What did you expect? That he’d send you flowers and write you bad poetry? That dead Nemean prowler is pretty much as close to a stuffed animal as you’re ever going to get from a...

Some relationships need an intermission while some require an ending.

In a materialistic society, there’s no such a thing as a ‘romantic’ broke man.

Mr. Right’ is usually two or eight men.

Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like “Second Tall Man”.

A man fishes for two reasons: he’s either sport fishing or fishing to eat, which means he’s either going to try to catch the biggest fish he can, take a picture of it, admire it...

Two birds went for dating. The male bird was killed and the female bird is being murdered.

The issue of dating and cruising sites, yes, if in fact they are not creating the images themselves, are protected as secondary producers.

If a boy doesn’t respect his mother…run!

To fall in love is a legendary action that doesn’t need any explanation.

…he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he’d have to be the one to let go.”From Alice Hoffman’s “Local Girls”, pg.102.

I don’t understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I’m interested in someone, and I don’t want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat...

I’m thinking there should be a dating site called “Tap That” – Jonathan “Jack” McVoy

Trust me, somewhere over the rainbow, happily ever after, etcetera, etcetera – looks far less likely in your mid-thirties.

I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners

At the end of the first date, I got my courage up and I made a move. One U-Haul van and 1,500 miles later, I regretted my boldness.

Maybe the Buddha was right: pain and suffering are the only true constants in life.

I just figured that was the life I picked, so I had to make the most of it.

My method is based on female psychology, so it works regardless of your looks or money

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.

And I have to say, books haven’t helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries to define it, there’s always a state or an abstract noun, and I...

Is that you, as big as you are, know how to walk gently on this earth.

On the best nights, he’d appear outside the bookstore window and wait for me to unlock the door. He usually hadn’t had time to shower between doing things with cattle and horses and coming to...

A male-female close-friendship hardly differs from a relationship; it takes “relating” to be friends. But sadly, not every relationship has friendship in it. It’s just ironical that two people who are not good enough to...

And just because you don’t have to insert batteries into him doesn’t mean you can’t be more.

A true champion of love and sport wears it proudly in all aspects of life.

88% of women love making their first love making incident with a man seem like an accident.