“ How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask."Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that. Suzanne Finnamore
“ To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, fil… Catherynne M. Valente
“ It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose. Myles Munroe
“ But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get update… Marina Keegan
“ Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knockthem down. Darnell Lamont Walker
“ People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing.… Deb Caletti
“ I'm terrified of getting involved with someone who disappoints me or leaves me empty and alone. I'm terrified of rejection, so I set my expectations so high that they can never be met, and I dig aroun… Rachel Machacek
“ Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an external threat. Laura Pedersen
“ That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is. Ice T
“ Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? M… Sarah Dessen
“ I've found that when you're wrapped up in the process of dating and want so badly to have something work out with someone -anyone- it's easy to forget that your choices aren't limited to one person or… Rachel Machacek
“ Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms. Alice Hoffman
“ The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do. David Richo
“ A person shows signs of clutching on too fast, of being needy, of not hearing the word "no," of jealousy, of guarding you and your freedom. But the signs can be so small they skitter right past you. S… Deb Caletti
“ He announces that lately he keeps losing things. "Like your wife and child," I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point. Suzanne Finnamore
“ I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self. Suzanne Finnamore
“ Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight that you end up bound forever in hopeless knots, even to the shadow of… Catherynne M. Valente
