More people are leaving TV behind to read my books than ever before. In the last year alone I gained over two readers (three, to be exact). So I’d like to take a moment and...

Your life is too precious to be disrespected

People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don’t make close friends is because they’re too embarrassed to share anything really important about themselves.

Mom actually said that?” Cassie’s face shown with happiness. “She always hated my math!””Nah,” Martin said. “She was just being that way for you. She thought it was what you needed to hear. If parents...

The best part about having kids is not actually having to have kids. Thank you, women.

We are one of those couples i used to watch, thinking to myself that I’d never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it...

What was it about relationships that made you feel so vulnerable? Oh, right. A relationship. In any relationship, you put yourself out there. You exposed all of your sensitive nerve endings and your heart and...

My love for you is like a Florida sunset. Orange, coral, pink, and lavender, it exists to warm your heart through the inevitable darkness.

You’re adopted” smile.

And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap… it drive me nuts sometimes… I want to kick them out immediately… I do now and then. But that...

people will forget what you said, people will forget what you do, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

I realize all guys have thorns. But I am a rose, and she chose a cactus over me. I wish her luck with her dry, desert-like existence with him.

It was told to me, it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself whose prior engagement ruined all my prospects, and told me, as I thought, with triumph. This person’s...

Tomorrow I’ll be 24 hours longer than I am today. My love for you grows every minute, and pretty soon it will be 120 seconds tall.

Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn’t make me mean, selfish, or uncaring because I don’t do things your way. I care about me too.

My momma says we don’t need a man to do our chores for us, ’cause we are smart and capable and I believe her even though Sara’s mom says men were born to be our...

People don’t want words, as seductive, pleasant and warming as they can be. People want to see that they’re worth some sacrifice or some great deed. And it’s not that people are always worth it,...

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

…and realizes how there are all these moments, moments like just this one, there are all these moments, and how everyone lives their lives in these short, all-too-short moments. There are all these moments and...

Nurture your relationships and all good things will come to you.

We can let go of the person or love or friendship without letting go of the lesson.

In every relationship one must sacrifice to show thy love. Are you willing to make sacrifices for someone you love?

What makes movies magical is not that incredible things happen in them. Incredible things happen in real life. No, what makes movies magical is they end right after the incredible thing happens.

I used to think–and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do–that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you...

But you’ve loads of shoes,” he bellowed joyfully. I shook my head sadly. Men just don’t get it, do they? They’re definitely missing the shoe chromosome.

Kavanagh has a smart mouth.

Yes, it’s a well-known fact about you: you’re like death, you take everything.

After he finished he said: If there is anything for you to learn, it’s only that you should not be ashamed. Don’t be ashamed to be a person with feelings. No matter what it is,...

Bitterblue had never seen a man naked, and she was curious. She decided the universe owed her a few minutes, just a few, to satisfy her curiosity. So she went to him and knelt, which...

You can put the girl in a relationship…,” I began, putting my arm around her. “But you can’t take the boy-crazy out of the girl,” Cassie finished.

I’ve drawn this as a circle because the seasons will come and go. Joy always leads to another season of romance . . . which always leads to another season of trouble . . ....

Oh.” It was one those ohs that came packed with layers of meaning — none of which merely meant oh.

Sex is a commitment…Once you’re there you can’t go back to holding hands…and when you give yourself both mentally and physically…well, you’re completely vulnerable.

Someday we’re going to look back on every shared smile and smile some more. It’s moments like this that make life worth enduring.

Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.

Karşınızdakine katlanabilmek için onunla ilgili bazı şeyleri görmezden gelerek yaşamaktanbaşka çareniz yoktur. Tıpkı öpüşen iki kişinin buna devam edebilmek için o sırada on milyon ila bir milyar arası bakteriyi değiştiklerini bilmemeleri, ya da biliyorlarsa bunu...

You can’t tell me I matter and then leave like I don’t.

Be drunk in love and high on life.

While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of “being,” my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just...

I could’ve sworn I was telling the truth when I told you I didn’t miss you.

This is the whole stupid thing about all these unblood relationships. They depend on people staying the same, standing in the same spot they were in over a decade ago, when they first met. Surely...

Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them.

HOME is where the heart is, but today, the PHONE is where the Heart is!!!

When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention).

Hey, beautiful. – Joe Covelli

We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn’t want to be ordinary.

She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped...

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.

He is a unicorn. I want to gently capture him and bring him back to my lab for research.