Life is a book. We fill the pages.

I’m so glad my date doesn’t think I’m ugly. I love blind dates where the woman is actually blind.

An attractive woman becomes beautiful when she’s happy and in love.

He was taking a leap here, negotiating with a crackhead, under the table, in a dark cantina. The courage etched on his face came from loving Aidia so much he’d close his eyes and walk...

Sometimes the heart of a weary soul needs a simple moment of love and light shined upon it, or reflected back to it. That momentary connection might be the one thing that inspires a person...

We all have different paths. Sometimes we do not know why we gravitate towards one another, sometimes we do. As for myself, I put my everything into any relation and I love and give because...

But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me, with her pride or her madness, live a lie.

In the river swam the gleaming fish, which were meant for water, just as humankind is meant for love.

Would you rather be affluent, or influential? I’d rather be fluent in the language of love.

Why don’t you wear those tiny shorts when you run, like they do in the movies?” His voice was low and sexy, and he knew it.”Because I’m not in a movie. I know it’s confusing,...

God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

She called it a slap, but I called it a high-five to my face. Love is so encouraging!

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence...

If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.

Love is fuel for the soul.

I’ll never leave youalone again. You’ve spent too many years always having to be the strong one, never having anyone torely upon. It stops now, Taylor. What I heard changes nothing when it comes to...

She smiled at me, and I never forgot it. Or more accurately, I always remembered it.

Small as a pea. Wider than the sea. This is where you and I came to be.

She knew exactly how he was feeling, because experience had taught her that the kind of excitement she was feeling at that moment was never, ever one-sided. On the contrary, she knew that it was...

You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.

The revolutionary woman knows the world she seeks to overthrow is precisely one in which love between equal human beings is well nigh impossible. We are still part of the ironical working-out of this, our...

One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.

The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like death, after which we may well go out like a candle flame, then...

Dear Natasha,It’s the middle of the night. I can’t sleep. Thoughts are creeping through my head like darkness slips around the bodies of sky scrapers in every city we’ve ever been to. From the bottom...

The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled heart to open wide, filling the space of emptiness that grief may have...

Love + Hurt = Amazing Things

I know the resolution. I know the end of the story before it ever begins. I must choose love. And for this, I will surely die.

Believe.” The Music sang.

Instead of cream, I like fog in my coffee. Makes me feel like I’m drinking the mystery that is love.

I pushed passed him. He grabbed my hand and swung me back towards him. Then he pushed me against the wall and… he kissed me.He ran his thumb along my jawline and down my throat,...

Rise or Fall you must not stop doing.

A woman’s flattery may inflate a man’s head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

Loving someone isn’t about fairy tales or control. None of us walk through the world unwounded. Love is simply giving someone a safe space to grow and heal, and that’s how we have to love...

You were that little girl.

If we could all love each and every person that crosses our path a little bit more, we could attain inner peace with the knowledge that many people on this planet would be hurting a...

Damn the way he had control over me.

Even dogs know how important it is to hear somebody else breathing.

I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me – you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken...

In ancient times, people weren’t just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with...

Fuck me, I love her.

Beautiful feelings soar freely, while true care roots deeply. Real love can only bedefined by them both.

Loving someone isn’t a hard task, it’s not a chore, you don’t wake up one day and decide to break their heart because you got all hot and bothered, that doesn’t happen!” he boomed.

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

I like her just fine, but you should watch yourself around her. Tennyson is given to obsession, and her obsessions tend to run toward trouble. It’s kind of a Wyoming thing to push the whole...

The pair of us are like salt and sugar: such different flavors, but so close in every other way you could never sort us apart once we’re together.

Store good words in your heart, and you will be always and everywhere finding yourself to be in goodness. Loyalty and kindness will always be with you. Paint your good words in the blue canvas...

True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every...

Be the light to show the way to others.

Mapleshade: “Your punishment is complete now, Crookedstar. You have lost everything.” Crookedstar: “No, Mapleshade. You’re wrong. I still have a clan that I love and am proud to lead. And now… …now everything precious to...

This book is a memoir – not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that are shameful to admit or even to feel. It is an account of...