How come you’re so different, I asked once, as we sat in the shade of the pine tree. Yukiko’s answer, a sentence learned by heart: Because I fell from a star.

Having random sex the way Tania did sounded kinda…hollow. I didn’t want to live in a Hollowland.

Virtually all women will always carry the scars and a deep sense of loss and grief from the betrayal. Whether a woman has stayed, left, or been left, it must be remembered that time is...

You can argue that it’s a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It’s the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac...

All good things spring from Self-Love

I made promises to you that I’m not sure I can keep.

If you feel unwanted or unappreciated where you are or by those you’re with, it only means you’re in the wrong place or with the wrong people. Hang in there. Someone else will see you...

And then there’s the truth beyond that, sitting like an old rock under green creek water: none of these things matter. Right now, in this moment, we have love. We have it in the sound...

Böyle bir toplum, kimseye güç vermez. Güçlü erkek güçlü doğmamıştır, güçlü olma yolunda giderken kendisini yavaşlatan her şeyden feragat etmiştir ve seni büyüleyen budur. Sana bir kadın olarak sahip olduğun hiçbir erdemi terketmemen öğütlendiğinden, seni...

This is what we do. Not so much argue as joust, in jest. We can’t stop pushing and pulling the taffy of words and concepts.

When love comes first, actions will follow.

At your absolute best, you still won’t be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you’ll still be worth it to the right person.

Relationships are painful when they are not working and so joyful when they are.

You have to realize that in life there’re certain things out of your control. You can only do so much and hope that the situation would be remedied. “It is what it is,” so don’t...

Such journeys have convinced me that it is not always possible to restore one’s boundaries after they have been blurred and made permeable by a relationship: try as we might, we cannot reconstitute ourselves as...

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

All at once, because life’s too short and it’s always like magic when you find a good thing. All at once, because I’m much too wise to not know that lightning can’t really hit the...

Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.

A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.

I know how you feel because I’ve been there too. I’ve hated and I’ve loved. I’ve seen my demons root and crawl and my angels branch and soar. I’ve died within myself and lived a...

If other people owe you an apology, and your words of apology to them are proper and heartfelt, you still may not hear from them for a while. After all, what are the odds that...

I fought for you, I fought for usI fought for the memories and the laughter that came upon us,Now here we are, we have become unknown people to each other,Worlds apart in an instant, for...

I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a...

I did not want to set my world alight, to watch it burn because of the sister I had come to love too much.

Gratitude comes in a spectrum of colors, but Ingratitude is always black.

The communication block between men and women:Men―”Can’t you hear what I’m saying?”Women―”Can’t you feel what I’m saying?

Carezza, like Tantra, considers the sex act to be a true feast of love, and ejaculation is seen as a clumsy, crude incident-something quite banal which kills sexual desire. The man who, a few minutes...

The woman who left abusive husbands in the 60’s and 70’s improved the institution of marriage because men now know that women can leave their husbands and the women or men who stay in abusive...

They’re horrible little creatures. All snot and smelly feet and pestering questions.””Then why did you go into teaching?””It was either that or sit at home with Mother all day. I picked the lesser of two...

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

To be a full-blooded hillbilly was to be a living koan. Half of you wanted to be dignified and half of you couldn’t tolerate any restraint. You could see it in the regional art and...

You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.

The girl arrived; I thought her handsome; and as I doubted not that you would be mortified by my absence, I did most sincerely hope that she would be able to dissipate something of your...

What man wanted a woman without fire, and vice-versa?

I maybe such a pain in the ass,But in a good way.I give you pleasure at the same time!

What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.

It turns out that you don’t end up with the people you love; by definition, you end up with the ones who stay.

Would you invest your money in a company that ALWAYS showed a loss? Then why invest your heart in someone that has no intention of buying it? Renting my heart is not an option.

When introverts go to church, we crave sanctuary in every sense of the word, as we flee from the disorienting distractions of twenty-first-century life. We desire to escape from superficial relationships, trivial communications and the...

Relationships are a development and a dance between our inner male and female sides. A one-sided development of the male side leads to ego, struggle, destructivity and a separation from life. A one-sided development of...

Oh, you know. Jace reminds me of an old boyfriend. Some guys look at you like they want sex. Jace looks at you like you’ve already had sex, it was great, and now you’re just...

Women, in general, will find it difficult to turn from a man and stop demanding that he meets their needs, provides security, and protects their identity, and return to me. Men, in general, find it...

I’m glad we can be friends.”There’s that word again. It’s like a safe word.

Don’t expect to see positive changes in your life if you surround yourself with negative people.

Women and cars are alike. Once they start giving you problems, get rid of them.

Little girls fear being a princess that was never rescued but little boys fear being a prince that was too late.

If you find a man who trusts you, who isn’t afraid, who sees you for who you are, and if it feels like he knows you for who it is that you simply are, and...

You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.

People talk a lot but they rarely say anything.

For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex “knowing”. Everything was different. Now he knew Dante. He’d known Dante. And wonder of wonders, Dante had known him right back.