In his experience with women, it was difficult to recover once things began to go wrong–once they had unreasonably decided that you were a person with whom they were not under any circumstances ever going...

One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the...

Isabella, you miss the essence of a boy. That’s all.

I watched, hoping she wouldn’t come out too broke. It’s all you can do for people sometimes, no matter how much you love them.

Dokunuşuyla ve sıcağıyla, insanı kavrayışıyla… Bıçak sırtı bir erkekti karşımdaki. İnsanı baştan çıkaran, tınısı kulakları çınlatan sesiyle, bu günahın iğvasına hiç düşünmeden atlayabileceğim kadar tehlikeli bir güzellik…

log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)

Balanced relationships are always based in freedom, not obligation.

We are wasting our youth holding cold devices while we should be holding one another’s warm hands.

It’s as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was...

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection.

Some marry because they are in love. Others marry to have sex … without the guilt.

When a man’s girlfriend’s parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they’re not really concerned about him; they’re concerned about their daughter’s tummy.

If love wasn’t conditional, every single first encounter with individuals of your ‘preferred’ gender would result in *love at first sight.*

The chaos in me is the chaos in you. Like the love in you is the love in me. So maybe we’re both a little crazy. Enough to believe we’re found where dreams are born...

We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passion of our own.

I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from...

My heart is flooded with love. Drowning is the way to go.

God is great and God is good,” Lisa says. “But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?

I had a dream about you. I was sitting on your couch, relating my succession of ideas on subconscious influence. I asked you what they meant, and you told me that free associations were a...

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don’t think it’s the children who need to be adjusted.

People pleasing doesn’t allow you to receive.

Kiss me hot,heavy,wet & angry with that attitude like you do when your mouth yells it hates me but your tongue screams it can’t wait for me. Hug me, touch me, submit to me with...

Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The soul of feminist politics is the commitment to...

You will never attain and maintain more than you think you deserve.

In the best relationships, there remain serious pockets of unresolved bitterness.

Cheating and lying aren’t struggles, they’re reasons to break up.

The dating world makes me feel incredibly vulnerable. You put yourself out there earnestly as available only to encounter some of the most disingenuous people. There seems to be no formula. Just a boat load...

I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances...

You don’t get to choose,” Lincoln said. “It’s just happening.

Honor your relationships by developing listening skills.

Working with people is basically not a question of formal education; working with people is a question of energy and awareness. Everyone can basically work with people. It is a question of developing a presence...

We must always be careful never to make more enemies than we could handle if they were all to attack at once.

Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female aspect within ourselves. Becoming aware of the inner man and woman means to...

Ask yourself, does this person make me feel good about myself? Do I feel safe, strong and free with this person? Those are the questions you need to ask….You have to be strong to truly...

A time comes in the life of a man when all you do is reflect on retrospective actions and desire better outcomes in the future

Don’t answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you’re joking.

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.