She felt as if she had somehow failed him and herself by allowing his mother’s behavior to upset her. She should be above it; she should shrug it off as the ranting of a village woman; she should not...
She gives me meals that stick to my ribs. She don't forget to put salt in the porridge. She never slams doors, and when she has nothing to say, she don't talk. That's uncanny in a woman, you know, Mis...
She got herself widowed, divorced, married, and pregnant – all in ten days’ time.
She had never been able to tolerate dishonesty, which she thought threatened the very heart of relationships between people. If you could not count on other people to mean what they said, or to do wha...
She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped her.
She moved in for a better look.It was a portrait of Bob Marley,a pretty good one,actually.No Woman, No Cry...that's right.No teenage girls either.All right,ten points if you'Re a poet,minus twenty-fiv...
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
She was her own Enigma Code and me and my dad were not Bletchley Park.
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.
She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from th...
She's such a lovely woman, he'd tell me time and time again. I'd nod, because my mom is such a lovely woman. And charming and smart. Can't argue with any of that. She's also a fucking wack job.
Significantly, romantic friendships can coexist with the fact of partners' marrying because their reason for being is not to replace marriage but to open the possibility of sustained, committed true l...
Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
So it’s all right for him to rule out a serious relationship, but it’s wrong if I’m not ready to settle for less?
So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.
Someone real, I hear myself saying. Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symp...
Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.
Sometimes love tries to do too much.
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