Most friendships are a sort of frozen and undeveloping semi-hostility.
Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.
Mostly, it is lies that will destroy a relationship. Deceit is a barrier to intimacy. André Chevalier
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...
My wife and I just don't have the same feelings for each other we used to have. I guess I just don't love her anymore and she doesn't love me. What can i do?The feeling isn't there anymore? I asked.Th...
Next was Alice. I gave her a book by Anne Rice because she is always talking about her. And she looked at me like she couldn't believe I knew she loved Anne Rice. I guess she didn't know how much she...
Night eyes had risen and stretched stiffly. Now he came to lie down beside me. He set his head on my knee. 'I don't understand. You are ill?''No. Just stupid.''Ah. Nothing new there. Well, you haven't...
No longer married, suddenly I was . From Latin, the name means emptied. Far worse; it felt like being torn in half, ripped apart from the single functioning organism that had been our family, our live...
No low-trust society will ever produce sustained innovation.
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of t...
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
No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can.
No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I...
Nodding, Parker ate. He’s an exceptional kisser.He really is. He . . . How do you know? When Parker just smiled, Emma’s jaw dropped. You? You and Jack? When? How?I think it’s disgusting, Mac muttered....
Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions.
Nothing we can do together is ever going to be embarrassing.
Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immova...
Once he traveled to a village to purchase a large rice harvest, but when he arrived the rice had already been sold to another tradesman. Nevertheless, Siddhartha remained in this village for several d...
One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.
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