“ Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t hav… David Levithan
“ (Peter) If you don't share the lows, it seems you might stop sharing the highs as well. Nancy Woodruff
“ She understands suddenly that the stuff that fills her up is not the love or attention she might get from other people; it is the love she herself has for other people. We are, Portia decides, the peo… Jessica Anya Blau
“ Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don’t understand that the culture really isn’t offering us all of these options – there still are very s… Dalma Heyn
“ Being faithful and monogamous is not natural for human beings. It takes work. Deep down we all know that. We have all been tempted to stray at some point or another. Even when it was only a fleeting t… Oliver Markus
“ I have to wonder if you're not being slightly naive here. I mean, are you saying that you want nothing for people? You have no motives? Everybody has motives. Name the person, the circumstances, I'll… Tom Rachman
“ With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him. S.J. Watson
“ Small animals are a great problem. I wish God had never created small animals, or else that He had made them so they could talk, or else that He'd given them better faces. Space. Take moths. They fly… Tove Jansson
“ A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon w… Elisabeth Elliot
“ I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage. Suzanne Finnamore
“ I wanted intimacy in caps lock but I got it in parentheses. We curled into each other, upside down, my empty spaces filled by another. "Give me the three minute version of your life story," he said. I… Eleni Zoe
“ When a man I like touches my arm or my hair, I want to know if he'll touch the center of me, and whatever I learned in school--I went to school for a long time--I seem to believe that my center can be… Alice Mattison
“ As I’ve said, it wasn’t until a long time afterwards—long after I’d left the Cottages—that I realized just how significant out little encounter in the churchyard had been. I was upset at the time, yes… Kazuo Ishiguro
“ A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man. Arnold Haultain
“ You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship. Julia Spencer-Fleming
“ I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn't giving him. Sarah Dessen
“ It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult t… Erin Morgenstern
