Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have car...
Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the...
Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for love. Almost everyone believes that we can have sex without love; most folks do no...
My brother, Langston, said, Lily, you don’t understand because you’ve never been in love. If you had a boyfriend, you’d understand. Langston has a new boyfriend and all I understand from that is a sor...
No matter. There is such a thing as looking through a person’s eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another’s soul in one hour than it might take you a lifet...
No people find each other more absurd than lovers
Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent—admittedly in my own best interest—on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.
She got herself widowed, divorced, married, and pregnant – all in ten days’ time.
She was sewing together the little proofs of his devotion out of which to make a garment for her tattered love and faith. He cut into the faith with negligent scissors, and she mended and sewed and re...
She was such a solitary woman. A solitary woman who longed for one person to know her. I think I do know her now, but it is too late.
She was the kind of person who never gave you enough time to miss her.
That was the problem these days--everything was considered disposable--clothes, cell phones, relationships.
The more a family can be splintered apart, the weaker and more ineffectual they become, and the more the enemy has control of their lives. One way to avoid this is through prayer. When you cover your...
We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most...
When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the...
You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.
Oh he loves her, just as the English loved India & Africa & Ireland; it is the love that is the problem, people treat their lovers badly. but maybe it is just the scenery that is wrong. maybe nothing...
Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.
In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." We...
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