To get faster and better service, ring a bell. It’s the same principal as honking at someone in traffic. People respond well to it, and they seem to really enjoy it.

If you cannot piece someone else’s heart back to its original condition, don’t dare to break it.

And the next morning, after a night of passionate sex, I said those three little words I knew she’d been waiting to hear: woman, I’m hungry.

People generally didn’t cheat in good relationships.

A telephone cord used to make an excellent leash on people. Now metal chains work better.

My apartment complex isn’t. No, it’s simple. I used to think our love was simple, until Chris Hemsworth moved into your heart.

When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.

In Jacksonville, there are more childrenless children than fatherless children. Barely. But that’s one bad thing that’s actually a good thing.

How we take it for granted – those trivial conversations; those mundane moments that we think hold no meaning. We never realise how much we rely on the ordinariness of everyday life. When love is...

There’s only one kind of girl I can tolerate being, and it is not the Girl Who Gives it All Up for Love.

I couldn’t take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn’t as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two men who both wanted one hundred percent of my time...

Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future.

Sex makes you stupid

But before I pass out, I want you to know that you’re the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat.

Which is worse? Loving someone and not being able to be with them or not loving someone and having to be with them.

Being present here and now is the highest compliment you can pay to a woman in your life.

No words. Just my finger pointing in silence. My finger silently saying, ’Unwrap me, darling.

But no guy was worth being a girl guys cheated with.

Don’t ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON’T.

Faith doesn’t get you around problems in life and relationships, it gets you through it.

It’s not hard to fail…it’s hard to accept you failed…but once that’s out of the way, it’s pretty smooth sailing

…and I laugh and I spin and dance and frolic in ecstasy and I… I hurt no more, while you…you petrified little man, are left to wonder if it’s you I speak of.

Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.

I’ll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but I can come into your world and try to be some kind of help to you.

My needs were covered by layer upon layer of denial. I was scrambling for reasons. But the truth was, even if he had had a successful career, I would have used it as an excuse...

My stubborn, self-savvy heart will not reach for the sky if my earth becomes everything I need. If people fill me up then where is my need for the transcendent? If everything is glory and...

There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s the endings we’re unprepared for.

You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

You have made him live.

I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person you liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount.

Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body.

And then there’s the truth beyond that, sitting like an old rock under green creek water: none of these things matter. Right now, in this moment, we have love. We have it in the sound...

Böyle bir toplum, kimseye güç vermez. Güçlü erkek güçlü doğmamıştır, güçlü olma yolunda giderken kendisini yavaşlatan her şeyden feragat etmiştir ve seni büyüleyen budur. Sana bir kadın olarak sahip olduğun hiçbir erdemi terketmemen öğütlendiğinden, seni...

This is what we do. Not so much argue as joust, in jest. We can’t stop pushing and pulling the taffy of words and concepts.

When love comes first, actions will follow.

At your absolute best, you still won’t be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you’ll still be worth it to the right person.

Relationships are painful when they are not working and so joyful when they are.

You have to realize that in life there’re certain things out of your control. You can only do so much and hope that the situation would be remedied. “It is what it is,” so don’t...

Such journeys have convinced me that it is not always possible to restore one’s boundaries after they have been blurred and made permeable by a relationship: try as we might, we cannot reconstitute ourselves as...

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

All at once, because life’s too short and it’s always like magic when you find a good thing. All at once, because I’m much too wise to not know that lightning can’t really hit the...

Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.

A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.

I know how you feel because I’ve been there too. I’ve hated and I’ve loved. I’ve seen my demons root and crawl and my angels branch and soar. I’ve died within myself and lived a...

If other people owe you an apology, and your words of apology to them are proper and heartfelt, you still may not hear from them for a while. After all, what are the odds that...

I fought for you, I fought for usI fought for the memories and the laughter that came upon us,Now here we are, we have become unknown people to each other,Worlds apart in an instant, for...

I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a...

I did not want to set my world alight, to watch it burn because of the sister I had come to love too much.

Gratitude comes in a spectrum of colors, but Ingratitude is always black.