The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as “seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.

How could you love us being together?” he asked me “We are nothing alike and we are not meant for each other and we drive each other crazy, you love that? How can you love...

First, they set the hook with mind-bending kinky shit. Then a year later you’re living in a Talking Heads song, dressed like Teddy Ruxpin, living with a strange woman in a big house full of...

Determining when not to overestimate and when not to underestimate is a crucial skill that is not easily acquired. But it’s unspeakably important to be able to know when not to underestimate, for example, another...

A relationship that is not actively nurtured dies out eventually, I told myself. Or does it?

Pain is usually all on the surface, but this terror is internal; not just a hurt, but a new language of feeling.

I held Angie Luna in that room for hours, and I remember the different times we made love like epochs in a civilization, each movement and every touch, apex upon abyss. In the luxury of...

I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language.

Love is not the perfect match, love is the connection between two people.

I had a dream about you. You were wearing Sylvester Stallone’s sneer as pants, but his lips were saggy on your legs, so you had to wear a mustache as a belt.

You are a blue rose, Letti. It’s almost impossible that you exist amongst the other roses but you do. You bring wonder to those who are lucky enough to find you.

You can never recover from losing a person you love, but you can find a way to let it be part of your life rather than letting it take over every part of you

What a blessing to love someone so much that you long for them at the core of your being. At the same time, when you are separated from that person, that longing is a torture...

I don’t know,” she said. “We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married....

Sometimes it’s your fragrance that comes to me, out of the blue, on a crowded road in a Sunday afternoon.But more often, it’s memories of us that cross my mind almost every lone evening.All I...

One of the most valuable things we can learn from open sexual lifestyles is that our programming is changeable.

Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes.

Once I had a wild fling on an otherwise boring weekend holiday in Edinburgh, with a guy I met who turned out to be a psychiatrist. He agreed with me, after hours and hours of...

When I’d remember this night in weeks, months, or even years, it wouldn’t be the sex. Sex would fade and so would the need to be filled with him, but right now I felt him...

Happiness has no time limits or conditions; the only requirement is to give it away.

Relationships, like all human experiences, are transient; they change every day and are meant to be enjoyed in the present. When I hear people say you need to “work” at a relationship, what that often...

Never lose sleep over someone who is not worth staying awake for.

In truth, people know very little about each other. I only know as much about you as I know about myself.

Guys have a mental calendar of days in the week, and below the days are empty boxes. On days when they have sex, the box gets a checked. The check mark means all is good...

Don’t get mad about the infestation of fleas if you keep shopping at the dog pound.

I tell myself I’m fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left to my own devices, I have no devices.

Every little girl wants a prince, a prince who only has eyes for her…but who are we kidding…there’s no such thing as fairytales. Don’t get me wrong…the world is full of dragons and damsels…just not...

Miscommunication is endless.

I guess, but . . . it’s more about creating the life you want so you can make that fate a reality. Youknow?

I had this dream about you last night. We were still married. I was giving you a haircut, like I always did, being careful to trim around the scar on the back of your head....

But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a...

It’s hard to say which I like more, the perfectly happy days or the hours right after we’ve ended a good fight.

Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.

The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other person to assume a role.One of the conditions of happy romantic compatibility is,...

When her boyfriend broke his leg, I knew it was my chance to ask her to dance. So I put down my baseball bat and approached her like Babe Ruth.

Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.

…some people become hypercritical when stressed.Then again, he hadn’t been stressed last week. She giggled, remembering how he’d instructed her on the proper way to fold hand towels. Talk about nitpicky. Perhaps this would be...

Baby, God ain’t gonna bless you with another woman’s husband, not today, not tomorrow, not ever.

They say it’s the woman’s prerogative to change her mind. But that’s wrong. Guys are the one who get to say, “You know what? I don’t want to be with you after all.” They get...

I love letting her know how much she means to me. A love in secret is but a shadow that’s cold and lonely.

You don’t stop loving someone just because you hate them.

Two broken people don’t make a whole! Without U, there is no us! Lord, I’m so thankful that U r the U in us!

What matters in relationship isn’t how you see each other, but whether you see each other.

I lit my loneliness on fire like it was a cigarette. But I didn’t smoke it, because that would have required me to remove my gas mask. And what kind of sensible girl is going...

If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.

Me and a group of friends meeting in private to bond and have fun may appear to outsiders as a shadowy secret society plotting to take over the world. But that’s utter nonsense. That group...

I didn’t call her, but the phone works two ways. So does my love.

A country isn’t something concrete, composed of intertwined individuals interlocked together. That’s absurd. A country is abstract, with some silly frilly flag and pomp and a song—a national anthem. But dust off the glitter, replace...

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.