To The Lilies among Thistles, Just like a lily, a beautiful life does not just happen overnight. It is built daily through informed choices, commitment, faith and prayer. The journey towards becoming A Proverbs 31...

It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn’t know what was at stake to lose, you...

I had to free myself from my devotion to him… to us… without losing my ability to believe in love.

North is a powerful man, and you’re still connected to him.” Flo frowned. “Probably sexual memory, those Capricorns are insatiable. Well, you know. Sea Goat. And of course, you’re a Fish. You’ll end up back...

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.

Erkeklere hayran olma. Anladın mı? Çünkü senden fazlaları oldukları için değil, aksine, senden bir kadın olarak korumanı beklenen erdemlerden arındıkları ve senden çok çok daha azı oldukları için, kıvılcımlar çıkaran bir meteor gibi düşüyorlar yeryüzüne....

You’re walking funny,” Lucy said, a shit-eating grin on her face. Five days of out of this world sex with a starving man could do that to a girl.”You’re just jealous.” Brenna pushed through the...

Men. Do they all evade as first line of defense?

What was happening to them was that every bad time produced a bad feeling that in turn produced several more bad times and several more bad feelings, so that their life together became crowded with...

The first six months are what I call the La La Land phase. This is what a lot of romantic novels, songs, and movies are based upon. Enjoy the courtship, nights out, and fun. You...

What makes us threaten the things we want most?

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark.

I want you to tell me that you feel the same way for me. And I’d like you to tell me those feelings are worth it. I’d like you to say I’m worth it.

If every lover was treated like they matter — everyday; valentine’s day wouldn’t be so ‘special.

Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.

With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.

It may be difficult, but there will be times we need to pick up our brooms and do some spiritual house cleaning. It is through this process that we find our true relationships, our true...

I did what I could,I tried to stay away,I told myself that I don’t need you,I don’t need to feel this way,But soon I realized that I am just a fishAlways falling as you’re prey

…we’ve told men for so long that we’re equal, we can open our own doors, carry our own bags, pay our own way, that now they’re afraid to offer in case we accuse them of...

The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.

…we are taught to put fun and serious pursuits on a continuum as opposed extremes, when this dichotomy is entirely false, made even worse when we act as though we can instantly exchange one for...

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

I can barely breathe but I think that his lips might be better than oxygen at the moment.

All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.

She praised his book and he embraced her from gratitude rather than lust, but she didn’t let go. Neither did he. She kissed his cheek, his earlobe. For months they’d run their fingers around the...

Two kisses, my first year at Yale, after we ran into each other at a party and he walked me back to the dorm. It was nice. Very nice. But as exceptional a kisser as...

She now saw that she wanted a boy to do more than follow her in blind devotion. She wanted a boy to challenge her, to tell her about things she’d never thought of, to show...

Sometimes, inflexibility creates a callus, scarring over all the bitterness and disappointment improperly, and there is no honest way to break that silence or that infinite distance, not even in death, not even in memory.

Can they admit it? And will they let me admit it too?

Memories are weird. They never really leave you alone, no matter how much you try, and the funny part is–the more you try, the more they haunt you. The more you want to run away,...

The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is...

Your relationship with your brother will be, in many ways, the most complex and bewildering of all the interpersonal connections you will form. An older brother is both authority and peer, friend and bitter enemy,...

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

Time for us began to be measured by moments when we spoke, and moments when we longed to speak again.

Love is one of the most motivating and self-defining forces in our lives, whether we turn from it or allow ourselves to be drawn to it. If you allow romantic possibilities with others to consume...

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

We’re pieces on a chessboard and we make our moves when it’s our turn. If we don’t, our decisions are made for us.

The purpose of any ceremony is to build stronger relationship or bridge the distance between our cosmos and us. The research that we do as Indigenous people is a ceremony that allows us a raised...

I didn’t know who I was or who I wanted to be until you stumbled into my life. I refuse to let you go.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

She was sewing together the little proofs of his devotion out of which to make a garment for her tattered love and faith. He cut into the faith with negligent scissors, and she mended and...

forever” always ends, that the one that wants it can, will achieve it and get it, that the one that risks it never looses anything, that physique, figure and beauty attracts but personality makes one...

Nothing gives a sensation better than a beer! Nothing builds a relation better than a beer!

Love spiritually, not strategically.

Wherever you are lacking, your obedience in working on that before your mate comes is vital.

And the game of dominoes is much like life: You gotta play the bones you’ve pulled. It don’t matter if you got seven doubles in your damn hand.

What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I end up wearing khakis because of that fucking ad?

A real woman’s blood pressure will go up when another man touch her, in anger of me losing my dignity and not because she likes it.

I’ve heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him...