You and I are so different: I am one word at a time one foot in front of the other, slowly, always testing how surely footing is before proceeding to the next sentence with ruminative...

Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa’s own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns...

I had a dream about you. You had no skin or muscle on your face, and to try to conceal your bare skull you liberally applied lipstick and makeup. Your birthday was coming up, and...

Each day brings a fresh opportunity for you to set the standard of how dedicated and committed you are to your needs, wants, goals, and relationships.

You’re a mess, I confess, I despise you in the best kind of way.

I will spend an eternity loving you, caring for you, respecting you, showing you every day that I hold you as high as the stars.

politician,” and must be destroyed.

Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there’s one person who never ceased to love you – yourself.

I live for sex. I celebrate it, and relish the electricity of it, with every fibre of my being. I can see no better reason for being alive.

Most men are blinded by the words “Bad Bitches” and end settling for less!

Because two people in love don’t make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It’s about being separate and still loving each...

You are important to this earth. If you were meant to journey alone, you would not have friends…

Everything since the beginning of time was working together to make my happiness possible: and then you. You walked into the audiovisual lab in your flannel shirt…and you fucked it up! You fucked everything up!...

Once people get into relationships, friends and rational thought get tossed aside.

I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium for all this misery.

The summer in youcalms the winter in me.

The rhythm of the heart…beats twice. Thump, thump. Once, first for itself and then once again for the rest of the body. It’s a true metaphor for us. Like the heart we must pump life...

I’ve always liked a woman that understood the value of getting out of my bed just as quick as she’d jumped in it.

The thing about lying is it’s like creating your own world, controlling your own little world. A tiny innocent, or as some people call them white lie, can lead eventually to the break-up of a...

My Miracle, living through a Traumatic brain Injury

I’m offering you love on a stick. If you’d like, you can grab it to go. It’s like a popsicle, only it won’t melt if you put it through hell like you did with you...

A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that first dream and realize that God has already written the first...

As we get older, it matters less where you are and more who you’re with.

If you’re stressing over happiness, you’re doing it wrong!

I love you madly, forever.

It wasn’t because you weren’t beautiful, talented, funny, creative or had everything in common. It was because some men prefer plain vanilla ice cream. It’s predictable and a safe choice. Confident and adventurous men prefer...

0 plus 100 equals 100. But so does 50 plus 50, only with more balance. Let this be a lesson in love.

Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget that everyone is destined to share the sky together.

I think the key indicator for wealth is not good grades, work ethic, or IQ. I believe it’s relationships. Ask yourself two questions: How many people do I know, and how much ransom money could...

I’m stuck in the middleOf the dream and the realityNot able to tell the differenceNot able to wake upDid I dream you into my lifeOr were you always realAnd were you always presentWithin the endlessness...

I love firm hugs. Statues are so affectionate. Well, at least compared to my ex wife.

I had to hand it to him, leaving the empty glove lying on the bed was an apt metaphor for love. Two things I can say about my grandpa are that he is wise, and...

Dear Mary Duende, It’s freezing here in the trenches, but loneliness is colder than any hyperthermia. Gunshots and shrapnel have become my companions. But life is better now than it was when I was at...

I love you,” he said, his voice catching. “When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.

My favorite time to network is now. Seriously, what are you doing this instant? Call all your friends and tell them you have somebody they just HAVE to meet.

Rachel hiccupped. “What are you, Wordsworth, now?””Do you like Wordsworth?” Rees asked.”Not especially.””Then, no, I’m not.

One of the best feelings in the world is when you hug someone you love, and they hug you back even tighter.

Aloneness and all-oneness is our authentic nature. We are always alone and all-one. We came into this planet alone and all-one. We will leave alone and all-one. And also during our whole staying in this...

When you’re here, I’m there for you. And when you’re there, I’m here for you.

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love...

I had a dream about you. The king decreed we could only speak one word, and that word would be assigned to us. Your word was hello, and my word was goodbye. You made me...

I remember my first cell phone number still. I may call it and ask to speak to myself from eight years ago. If they say I have the wrong number I’ll tell them, No, right...

Quality is not for compromise.

Love is the only wound that feels good and is both self-inflicted and caused by others. I should sell emotional Band-Aids.

My hands will get dirty holding your rose-like heart, because love is like gardening—it’s earthy and takes work to keep it alive.

Maybe I will buy my nephew an aquarium for his next birthday. It’s got to be better than the bathroom sink, which is where my brother is keeping him now.

Love says hello, and hate says goodbye. Your mom also says hello.

No man wants his daughter to be the kind of girl whom he liked in high school.

I will be on the look out for you, my dear girl,” he wrote. “You must expect to give yourself up when you come.” For this buttoned-up age, for Burnham, it was a letter that...

Without such trust and safety, social relationships tend to become strategic rather than cooperative, increasingly full of skepticism and even anxiety and fear about others’ intentions. (p. 27)