I used to live with someone of the opposite sex. It’s called a sister, and I don’t have one.

He tried drowning himself, but he only succeeded in taking a bath. That man was my dad, and I showed him how to tie a tie—and a noose.

Sometimes an impulse is more rewarding than a calculation.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

I want to open a broken marriage repair shop. I’m not a counselor or psychologist, but I am a fan of the magical bonding that occurs between two people when duct tape binds them together...

The people who matter most in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They’re with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend. They rise up...

I’ll keep you here.’ He taps his temple. ‘Where you can’t get lost.

I am the ghost in the empty jar. My silence belongs in the cemetery, just like all my ex girlfriends. Long live love!

for to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses.”Separation anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analysts, XLI, 1-25 (1959(

You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

Don’t make a physical decision on an emotional feeling that will led you to mentally suffering in the end.

I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable.

Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they’re communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they’re actually having, the conversation...

Dar ir dabar pasijuntu besvarstąs: o gal aš jos nė nemylėjau? Gal mudu abu tik plykstelėjom kaip nuogi laidai, aklai susilietę tamsoje, sukibirkščiavom – ir viskas, vėl akla tamsa?.. Gal.

You are set free whenever you love—even those who believe you’re crazy.

My relationship with him was defined by these complex emotions, this mixture of gratitude and resentment.

There is nothing greater in this world then love. Many things in this world have limits and expiration dates, but love is constant and everywhere. More important, it can take many forms and even when...

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

If you expect honesty, be honest. If you expect forgiveness, forgive. If you expect a whole person, you have to be a whole person.

If you want to be a strong, maturing Christian, your first priority is to develop a closer relationship with God.

It’s never easy letting go. But if we don’t learn the art of relinquishment, we’ll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.

Are you afraid of getting hurt?” I asked.”I’m scared of what’s ahead for the person who will…he’ll live for a time without my presence. It makes me think… Will I be able to endure just...

Your private self must become the same as your public self.

How love works: Proximity leads to intimacy, and intimacy leads to a relationship. In other words, people who are around each other a lot, get close, and end up hooking up. So it’s no great...

A wedding is and event, but marriage is a life.

When you’ve been around as long as me, Lucy, you’ll know that there are three types of sex… One – brand-new, kitchen-table sex. Two – bedroom sex. Then number three – hallway sex, when you...

But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there’s very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, growing taller than most of the plants around it.

No woman ever gets given a fur coat for good reasons; if it’s not to keep her on her back, it’s to get her off his.

Biz erkekler, kalbimizi hızlandıran kadınların peşinden koşarız,ta ki kalp atışlarımızı durduracak olanla karşılaşanakadar. Sonrası yokuş aşağıdır, ne geri ne de ileri gidebiliriz.Sadece düşeriz.

And I learned that sometimes when someone says something so devastatingly perfect, there isn’t a need for a response. The words said it all.

Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her joke all that funny.

Błogosławiony ten, co nie mając nic do powiedzenia, nie obleka tego faktu w słowa.

Relationships are where we humans get our greatest education.

We kissed each other until we were too tired to keep going. I could still feel him holding back. It was my penance for what I had done to him. All I could do was...

It’s the opposite of the collapse of the fantasy.It’s what happens when the illusion pales in comparison to the truth. I’m seeing her for the first time. Not Ava Garden Wilder, the rags-to-riches granddaughter of...

If you don’t feel the same way about him, if you’re just leading him on, you need to tell him that. I’ve seen too many nice guys get shafted because a girl can’t get over...

Love is a flame. It’s when you get to know each other again. It’s the fights that will follow your first. It’s you finding another reason to fall in love with each other. It’s both...

Mr. Right’ is usually two or eight men.

The best kind of humans are the ones who stay.

Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

I stood there on the corner of the street,I held on to your hand,I looked into your eyes,And all you responded with was,”move on

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future – and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

When jealousy rears up, it indicates that something inside of you is afraid. It’s an alarm, nothing less and nothing more. Treat it as such.

I went to bed without reading, instead staring out my window with the curtains drawn, wondering about boys. Why did they behave so oddly? One minute their teasing was relentless, and then bam! — they’d...

People will always walk their own road and you cannot drag them onto yours. But, if you happen to wander into the path of a good person, you best take your mask off and shine...

If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a...

The golden rule of business is supply and demand. I venture to say that this is also the rule of happiness. When a balance is achieved between our desires and another’s willingness to satisfy them,...

At the base level, it is about making connections and building relationships, but if you take the letters from networker out of the word COnNeCtworker, you are left with 4 letters. C. O. N. C....