“ It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludic… Ian Mckellen
“ When we feel lonely we keep looking for a person or persons who can take our loneliness away. Our lonely hearts cry out, 'Please hold me, touch me, speak to me, pay attention to me.' But soon we disco… Henri J.M. Nouwen
“ When the madness came, he would be like a man staggering along the rim of the abyss – which was his rage – and when the edge gave way or he missed his step, he might clutch at anyone within reach and… Geraldine Brooks
“ What I’m trying to say is that it will be okay between you and Nate. Because you both want that. Because you both want that more than anything. It sounds simple, but I’m learning that the problems sta… Laura Dave
“ Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he'… W. Somerset Maugham
“ Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise. (p. 2… Simone de Beauvoir
“ This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic. Lorrie Moore
“ There was a fine-tuning of Richard's and my temperaments during the years we lived with his heart disease, lymphoma, and lung cancer. Before, our differences had triggered sporadic tension; now our ba… Kay Redfield Jamison
“ Then, whenever I feel the sun on my face, I will think of you, I told him. You will always be with me, Bill. Because of all I have felt for you, and all I have learned from you. Cornelia Maude Spelman
“ The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned to communicate your feelings to a man. You don’t even want to communicate in a relationship. You thin… Tom Robbins
“ The only real security is not in owning or possessing, no in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forwa… Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“ The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the conti… George Eliot
“ Other people were so unsuccessful at fending off love! Members of Congress who had affairs with their aides, or students who I'd known in college, girls who as freshmen declared themselves lesbians, t… Curtis Sittenfeld
“ One could be forgiven for supposing that rationality (or, more softly, ‘reasonableness’) is irrelevant – and even possibly opposed – to being a good lover. This is perhaps because we tend to think of… Alain de Botton
“ It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand… Aimee Bender
“ I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and less that. He is better or worse in these ways. It is human nature… Emily Giffin
“ I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack. Chuck Klosterman
“ Has it ever occurred to you that Max feels the same basic contempt for you as you do for him?He feels contempt for me?It is something he feels very readily.No, I hadn’t thought that.Well, the whole wo… Hilary Mantel
“ God’s love for us is everlasting. That means that God’s love for us existed before we were born and will exist after we have died. It is an eternal love in which we are embraced. Living a spiritual li… Henri J.M. Nouwen
