If she doesn’t learn to weld here, she’ll just learn it on the streets.
If I were a function, you would be my asymptote. I always tend toward you.
I like you because you are Kaitlyn—genuine, beautiful, brilliant, amazing Kaitlyn—not because you’re Kaitlyn Parker. And I’m in love with you because I can’t help myself.
However, the more stressful my situation is, the less I think about it, or anything related to it. At present , I thought about how the elevators were like mechanical horses, and I wondered if anyone...
He was so handsome I felt like filing a civil lawsuit against his parents, claiming punitive damages, pain and suffering to my psyche.
Greg crossed to me, his gaze moving in a slow, cherishing path over my features. If you knew how I saw you, how I think of you, your ego would become unmanageable.
Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid? That is the only time a man can be brave, his father told him. George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Blame is a thief. It robs us blind while it wastes our time, time we could be spending as a family, making memories, supporting each other.
Because if it’s possible to have a partner who gives all of themselves without reservation, who looks forward to working and sacrificing for me just as I look forward to doing the same for her, who ca...
Marriage is an ultimate sport in emotional multitasking. I’m never only mad at Greg. I’m mad and madly in love; angry and concerned for his wellbeing; he frustrates and delights me in the same second....
You’re wicked smart. And cool. And drama free, which is a huge deal. Drama free is at the top of my list these days. You can be intimidating.Me? But I’m a Hufflepuff.
Where are we going?… Just this place I know with a waterfall and a cave. It’s part of the estate, so no one uses it.How nice, I said … We have a garage at my house. It holds a car and some of my dad’s...
Where I'm from, Tom tilted his head to the side, they call your kind a hipster or a lumbersexual, with the beard and flannel and such.Without missing beat, Jethro responded, Ah. See, where I'm from, t...
We are most awake to the world and to our own longings and desires when we suffer.
We all belong to ourselves, until we have children. Then our children lease us for as long as they want.
There will be no bananas! There will be entire tropical rainforests of bananas! And coconuts! I gestured to my breasts. And, hopefully, bananas rubbing against coconuts.
There is a stillness that accompanies the death of a loved one. Everything becomes quieter, but it’s not just sound that is dimmed. Movement, action, perception, emotion—everything is distant and remo...
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost. Marcel Proust
The beauty of human relationships is sharing burdens? More or less. But burdens don’t grow lighter if both people are contributing equally. Life isn’t a fifty-fifty split, that’s just being lazy. Burd...
Sometimes, things are sad and unfortunate. But finding the funny in a situation can make the sad and unfortunate more bearable.