It’s just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn’t it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn’t fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair.

Find yourself first…like yourself first…love yourself FIRST…& friendship & love will naturally find YOU.

An Ally does not keep count

Christ, they’d be getting a cat next. He mentally recoiled from the idea: the day they did that, he’d cut off his dick and call himself a lesbian.

A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *are* like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for potential partners, a 2...

The best relationships are between two people who care more about each other’s good than their own momentary pleasure.

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.

Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty God gives to prodigals-an ability to let them go-or we’ll be perennially bound to others for...

Truth builds trust.

We are social animals. We need others to survive. With rare exception, this is at the heart of many of our behaviors. We create patterns of behavior that help us to stay connected with others,...

After that, I’d wanted to date, but I simply didn’t know how. It seemed to come natural to everyone else, pairing up and going out. And now, well, I felt like a nonparticipant, like there...

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...

One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the...

Isabella, you miss the essence of a boy. That’s all.

I watched, hoping she wouldn’t come out too broke. It’s all you can do for people sometimes, no matter how much you love them.

Dokunuşuyla ve sıcağıyla, insanı kavrayışıyla… Bıçak sırtı bir erkekti karşımdaki. İnsanı baştan çıkaran, tınısı kulakları çınlatan sesiyle, bu günahın iğvasına hiç düşünmeden atlayabileceğim kadar tehlikeli bir güzellik…

log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)

Balanced relationships are always based in freedom, not obligation.

We are wasting our youth holding cold devices while we should be holding one another’s warm hands.

It’s as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was...

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection.

Some marry because they are in love. Others marry to have sex … without the guilt.

When a man’s girlfriend’s parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they’re not really concerned about him; they’re concerned about their daughter’s tummy.

If love wasn’t conditional, every single first encounter with individuals of your ‘preferred’ gender would result in *love at first sight.*

… There can be no grounding of love and goodness without power (strength). Love that is not founded on inner strength is easily destroyed by power. Caring that is based only on the wish to...

Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.

Proper apologies have three parts:1) What I did was wrong.2) I feel badly that I hurt you.3) How do I make this better?

Saylor and Beau worked together not like a piston head turned by a camshaft, but like the torque created from such synchronicity.

He carries stars in his pocketsbecause he knowsshe fears the dark.Whenever sadness pays her a visithe paints galaxieson the back of her hands.

I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.

There is that, and there is also the Irreconcilable Differences line. It seems so catchall, so vague. You could say that about anyone, any man and woman at all. Jesus and Mary Magdalene: “Irreconcilable Differences.”...

A shadow of disillusionment crossed her face at the thought that Aaron had not matured after all this while. He was still the loud-mouthed, uncouth ruffian she had remembered him to be while she, on...

That’s why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because...

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them—not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

normal” people want to be able to truthfully say, but almost no one can.

I think we go well together. I like being with you because I’m never bored. Even when we’re not talking, even when we’re not touching, even when we’re not in the same room, I’m not...

You cold or something?’ he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: ‘It’s a chill, it’s nothing’; and then, pushing a little away: ‘Say you love me.’I said it.’No, oh...

Judging Natalie as my mother had judged me was, I felt like telling her son, just my ass-backward way of showing love. I’d spent my life trying to translate that language, and now I realized...

We kiss all the time.” I clear my throat, then add, “We just…do it in private.” “A smug expression crosses his face. “I don’t buy it for a second, ’cause if you were my girlfriend...

It doesn’t matter. He deserves toknow how he impacted your life

The more a family can be splintered apart, the weaker and more ineffectual they become, and the more the enemy has control of their lives. One way to avoid this is through prayer. When you...

It’s just that, you know how it is in some relationships, how one of them is a little more in love. Well, it’s like that with friendships. Sometimes one of them thinks they’re really close,...

We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can’t choose their direction.

I like you. Therefore I will decorate you with qualities you don’t have.

When both our inner man and woman takes responsibility for themselves and lives their own truth, a joy and love begins to flow naturally between them. Healing means to develop the inner man and woman...

When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have...