A newcomer could ascertain the identity of a town's true leaders – which storekeeper was respected, which farmer was listened to other farmers – only through endless hours of subtle probing of reticen...
A man has never told me he likes me. Like is more interesting than love.
Friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships.
Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.
Just because you are available for a relationship, doesn't mean you are ready for one. Sometimes you need a break from external relationships to nourish the internal one.
He'd wanted her. Out of all the women in the world, he'd wanted her. Wanted, hell, she thought grinning now. Pursued, demanded. Taken. And while she could admit all of that was exciting, he'd gone one...
The person you are sleeping with signifies the value upon which you have for yourself. You are attracted to who reflects your deepest vision of yourself
At some point you have to stop crossing oceans for those who wouldn't jump puddles for you.
Suzanne sat in Roger's chair, staring at the reflection of her dread morning face. Roger browsed his cassette rack. "Do you want calming or stimulating?" he asked her. Suzanne mulled it over for a few...
People with Sweet Relationships [those favoring you, always talk good] with you, will make you stumble.
Learning the difference between God's intervention, the devil's mischief, and PMS can lead to increased happiness.
It is 10 PM now, and Godzilla has been sitting at his desk in front of his laptop for six to seven hours. He has accomplished hardly anything today. Godzilla is drinking a lot of beer. He can not stop...
There's nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone.""There is when your only reason is the being, not the someone.
She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing about for hundreds of years, but she also knew...
It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.
You ought to take more chances, I said. I took too many earlier, she said. I'm sorry.
Who doesn't have a friend who worships her lover with a passion that seems baffling to everyone that knows them? Before you met him for the first time, she'd talked him up like he was a cross between...
The lover readily imagines that he and his mistress are one. He feels he has love enough for both and that his loving will can swathe the two of them together like twin nuts in a shell. But what one l...
The last thing she'd wanted was anything as complicated as a relationship, for it felt as though there we're though complication in her life already.