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...

Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.

It takes two to tango, and if you dance too long, implosion is inevitable.

You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the...

An honorable human relationship – that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” – is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of...

I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy.

We don’t get to choose our blood families, but we do get to decide how to talk to them, how much to tell them, and how open to be with them about the core of...

Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all...

What I’m realizing is that a broken heart isn’t a solitary event. There is the initial shatter, but then there are repeat breaks, creating more and more shards. A word that reminds you of what...

Love has no limitations. It cannot be measured. It has no boundaries. Although many have tried, love is indefinable.

To touch a person…to sleep with a person…is to become a pioneer,” she whispered then, “a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you...

The festive season isn’t just a time to teach children about Jesus and giving, it’s also a time to teach your children about those less fortunate. This year, encourage your children to pick a present...

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose...

My love for you spans over the lines of my past, present, and future. You are what I love remembering, what I love experiencing, and what I love looking forward to.

Be sure it’s your real self you’re showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.