the gravity of wound to fist

You know what I love? The spaces between I love you. The tap of your fork against the plate and how my cup of wine clicks against our table. The scratchy voice coming from the...

I thought about how the past can become so small. An entire day, 24 separate, heavy hours, becomes the size of a tiny brown leaf falling from a tree. Before you know it, a whole...

Public truth telling is a form of recovery, especially when combined with social action. Sharing traumatic experiences with others enables victims to reconstruct repressed memory, mourn loss, and master helplessness, which is trauma’s essential insult....

So many men treat their wives badly, or indifferently, or with barely contained impatience. Josh doesn’t mind– no that’s not right–he insists on openly showing his love and respect for me.

I want you to want me. But I want you to want me for all the right reasons.

The phrase *You complete me* is nonsensical. A couple is a *we* … not a complete *me.*

She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.

She had the power to change the world but she couldn’t save the one she loved.

Time heals the wounds of the past, Apology, forgiveness, and acceptancedoes lighten the scars.

Don’t underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through.

I need you to love me the same waythe moon orbits around the earth,without intention to stop.”Confessing the heart

I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life? Marrid to someone who is perpetually distracted and somewhat wistful, as though a marvelous party is...

In this quiet place on a quiet streetwhere no one ever finds usgently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.–from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street

This does not escape my notice, it is a context. I resent the fact of a context; my social status has shifted and no one is going to acknowldege it, that´s certain. I´m expected to...

The song in me for you is forever musical

Love doesn’t mean anything if you’re not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.

I don’t like relationships, though. I mean, it is nice and all, but I prefer to be the friend. I don’t know why. They’re kind of exhausting.

Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.

In words which can still bring tears to the eyes, St. Augustine describes the desolation into which the death of his friend Nebridius plunged him. Then he draws a moral. This is what comes, he...

The blame of course belonged to Clyde, who just was not much given to talk. Also, he seemed very little curious himself: Grady, alarmed sometimes by the meagerness of his inquiries and the indifference this...

Something that you love so much you would be willing to die for it.

In love, treat your relationship as if you are growing the most beautiful flower. Keep watering it, tend to its roots, give it lots of sunlight, and always make sure the petals are full of...

Be the love of your love, not the slave of your love.

Lord, I pray that my husband will be strong in the Lord and put on the whole armor of God, so he can stand against the enemy every day. Enable him to take up the...

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

She was not the sort of woman guys settle for. She was the one they lust after and strive for. She was the one who ruins other people’s relationships simply by existing, but she will...

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn’t dated.

When we embrace the opposites within ourselves and understand that inner harmony arises when they mature, we find the love, joy, silence and freedom that are hidden in every moment. It is my experience that...

A man is in one piece until love finds its way to his heart … it splits him in half … vital to have both halves, yet excruciating to keep them glued together

That eveningWhen I was all aloneIn our bedroomTo give me companyYour voice came along

An Army wife is probably the only woman in the world whoknows and readily accepts that she is the mistress, because, let’sface it, the Army is the wife and the wife gets all the damnattention!

I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you…””You cannot roll with me,” said the Big O, “but perhaps you can roll by yourself.

Some say that Love, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies.

Forget the adage Win/Win and make a commitment to Learn/Learn. Win/Win is good, but implies an end. Once you win, then what? Learn/Learn creates a paradigm of ongoing value. This creates a Learn/Learn situation. I...

Don’t let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you’re stupid.

Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched...

I’ve always had a thing for Carmyn Rafferty. She carries herself as a reserved and proper woman, but I see a tension in her. A slight glitch in some of her movements lets me know...

…it’s been amazing- not perfect, but amazing. I’m actually glad of the nonperfection because that has made our relationship feel more grounded, solid, and real than what I had (…), which just cruised blithely along,...

… relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.

Become faithful to yourself, if you do, it will come natural towards everyone else.

The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing–unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls CANNOT be...

Even though she would dream of love, respect, and unfettered romance… it was a cyclical dilemma in her life that she seemed to be most attracted to poisonous men.

All the black leathershe needsis the E-Z boy reclinerwhere her love is parkedwith one of his hands wrapped around a remote,the other, a bottle of beer.She’s right. It’s kinky.The way he doesn’t look awayfrom the...

Sometimes love can be both the punishment and the crime.

AttractionThe whites of his eyespull me like moons.He smiles. I believehis face. Alreadymy body slips down in the chair:I recline on my side,offering peeled grapes.I can taste his tonguein my mouthwhenever he speaks.I suspect he...

You are my home; it is in your loving gaze that I find the comfort, acceptance, and the sense of belonging.

But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

For all his secrecy and fear of being seen, he was touched that we had observed him so closely, and with such love. He loved that we knew him. This is one reason people need...

I love being aroused. I love how that feeling overcomes me, as I look at a man’s erect cock, as I feel his hands ripping my clothes from my body, as the air caresses my...