She wants the kids, the cars, the house, and the white picket fence. I said sure, I can give you a fence.

Lately I can’t help wanting usto be like other people.For example, if I were a smoker,you’d lift a match to the cigarettejust as I put it between my lips.It’s never been like thatbetween us: none...

Choosing to love, in spite of all its complexities, is the only freedom there is.

Compromising is the only path that all happy couples travel on.

She has a body for years, and I have an astronaut tan. When we make love it will be like (x + 2)(2x -1) = 0, solve for x.

If you try a joke a second time and nobody laughs, don’t tell a different joke—tell different people.

I remember her words about remembering my words, and that’s when it hit me: the quickest way to scalpel open a heart is with a declaration of love.

We’re distant cousins. He’s my first cousin, but he’s 5,000 miles away. And he doesn’t talk much.

The day my dad left my mom and I was the second saddest day of my life. The saddest day was the next day, when he returned home.

Can trust be trusted?

Her and I, we passed each other, and now she’s in my past. That’s one present I’d like to unwrap in the future.

For there is nothing like travel to heal a broken heart.

Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be ‘Doctor of Life,’ and I will be in good company. So many of...

Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won’t make life perfect but she’ll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that’s in you.

I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can’t see what everyone else sees in me. I don’t feel beautiful. When...

I wrote: ‘Do you really not believe in love?’I really wished I never would have asked.’No’, she had written back. ‘I believe people become infatuated; maybe they even really like each other. But I don’t...

I don’t throttle and smother people in my life.. Not because I don’t have my own fair share of doubts and sometimes, yes, insecurities.. But I have a great deal of confidence in my instincts...

We fall in love and let our minds fall apart..We let ourselves fall, and keep falling..Our minds are caught by one another, mixed up in a random puzzle, piece by piece put together into a...

I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I’m not under any...

Not everyone has to ride off into the sunset with a man. Some of us just want a tan.

The more things we accumulate, the more cluttered our lives become, and the more stressed we feel as we are compelled to think about them. Life is about people not about things.

Nothing could replace the feeling of total devotion from another person.

Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type.

Girls spilled drinks down their dresses and flicked their hair. Wishing anyone, maybe even you, would notice them… You were someone to me.

It’s the only part of a person I really want to capture. Everything else seems to get lost in layers of deception or defensiveness. But not kindness. You can’t hide it. And people either are...

Sometimes I feel like relationships consist of telling your same life stories to different people until someone finally appreciates them.

Accept that what you see is what you’ll get. Once your relationship becomes firmly established, your partner’s personality and the way in which [he or] she treats you will most likely be what your future...

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, “Here are the...

I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to...

Im gonna be a pretender the rest of my life. Pretending i dont wish every girl i kiss isnt you. Pretending i dont wish every girl i sleep with isnt you. Im gonna have to...

That’s all women need men for? Sperm, a paycheck, and free flights?

A man is not for you when all he knows is to slam your back on the bed and ram into you like a wild fool. The interested ones are the ones so interested that...

There’s a story here.A catastrophic silence where our thoughts and feelings collide …Where your sweetness overrides my senses and our bodies move to the same tune.The same song.The same melody.The same stroke.The same rhythm.It’s our...

We must admit that simply knowing the contents of the Bible is not a sure route to spiritual growth. There is an aweful assumption in evangelical churches that if we can just get the Word...

Birisi üzerinize, sahibi olduğunuzu düşündüğünüz şeyin sizden önceki sahipliğini serpiştirdiği anda, belki de o şey sizin olmaktan çıkıyordu. Sevgilinin eskisiyle karşılaşmak bu yüzden kötüydü.

The reason gold-diggers trivializerelationships is because they do not know love,they only know money.

I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters.

Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it....

In relationships, you cannot give to another that which they need, you can only share who you are.

Both spouses are equal, yet different. One of the most beautiful things about a relationship is that the feminine energy can feed a masculine man’s heart. And, the masculine energy can totally light up the...

When we see a good-looking woman with a not-so-good-looking man, we assume that the man must have a good bank balance. When we see a good-looking man with a not-so-good-looking woman, we assume that she...

Love… is friendship. A deep, lasting foundation that you both decided to set on fire.

Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.

Maybe all that we are is what people expect us to be.

He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get through most of his days on stock answers to stock questions, he thought. Once he catches onto the...

If your best friend truly is the person who knows you completely and loves you anyway, wouldn’t that be your mother?

There is never a reason good enough to be out of alignment with peace.

Treat your heart like a turnstile. Open it to only those who got valid tickets.

That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.