A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive.

Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?

Your false promises are dark enough to submerge even the sun.

I wanted to observe how a genuine people person, who happens to also be a salesman, handles himself in the presence of a stranger. And few people are stranger than me, so I was paying...

Your life is a collection of body parts that could be used to save many people. And you’re not doing anything. What are you doing with your life that’s so important? Come on, let’s dissemble...

Mr. and Mrs. Foster are not my foster parents. Also, they’re not even married to each other. Mr. Foster is married to a different Mrs. Foster, and Mrs. Foster, the first Mrs. Foster, is married...

Where do the cereal bowls go?” Likely, one family’s is high, and the others is low. Where will they go now? In the bathroom. The bathroom is a battleground unmatched in the potential conflicts. Will...

I love you the way ice melts in vodka—slowly, seamlessly, and invisibly. It’s a feel-good feeling whether you see it or not.

Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

In my dream I was a seal, and I made love to a seagull. Then I got eaten by a shark, because that’s just the way life is. Some fish gets jealous over a bird,...

The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to...

I’ve long suspected myself of being a suspicious person. But that’s OK, because suspicious people make better lovers, right?

My girlfriend just had a baby. We’ve known each other for six months, so I’m pretty stunned to find myself becoming a father so soon. I hope the baby looks like me!

The length of people I love is too long to list. But if you were to do it, it would look like a phone book.

I had a dream where I drank my own grandma. What she was doing disguised as a bottle of booze isn’t entirely clear to me.

Last weekend I went out of my comfort zone to go hang out with people I’d only heard about, and I met one new person who turned out to be a very valuable contact. I...

We all are secret-keepers in our intimate relationships. We keep secrets from our partners about daily encounters, former lovers, true feelings about sex, friends, in-laws, finances, personal hopes, and worries about work, health, love, and...

Married women are far more depressed than married men — in unhappy marriages, three times more; and — interestingly — in happy marriages, five times more. In truth, it is men who are thriving in...

I believe that the ‘love of your life’ is just a person that you chose. You choose them because you believe that they’re it.

Relationships are built on trust. If you don’t trust me, how can I ever hope to get close enough to steal your heart and sell it on eBay?

That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.

If they were there for you when you had nothing, they are the ones worth having now. If they only notice you because of what you have gained, are they worth having at all?

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren’t two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy’s permission, blessings, and money to survive.

Some say ignorance is bliss, I say love is.

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

I love you. That never changed eversince that day you walked right in front of me.

Silence means consent.” If you tolerate snide or offensive remarks from your boss or colleague, the remarks will continue. If you tolerate your spouse’s lack of consideration for your feelings, it will continue. If you...

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...

The pieces of a puzzle aren’t together or apart.

I shut my eyes, turned away for a moment, and it came: a shiver of finality like the one when you decide, in your own mind, that you’re going to have to tell someone who...

Just because lips have met doesn’t mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn’t mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal...

Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

My needs were covered by layer upon layer of denial. I was scrambling for reasons. But the truth was, even if he had had a successful career, I would have used it as an excuse...

My stubborn, self-savvy heart will not reach for the sky if my earth becomes everything I need. If people fill me up then where is my need for the transcendent? If everything is glory and...

There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s the endings we’re unprepared for.

You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

You have made him live.

I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person you liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount.

Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body.

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...