“ You get lonely, is what it is. A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It's not normal. The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer… Jim Shepard
“ The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the culprit is fear, women are afraid of one thing, men are afraid of a different thing; the fears of w… C. JoyBell C.
“ All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. That which is far off, exceeding deep, who can find it out? Compton Gage
“ There shall be confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruate women shall bring forth monsters: Compton Gage
“ If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale. Nicholas Sparks
“ My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man. Alanis Morissette
“ Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. W. H. Auden
“ It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. Soren Kierkegaard
“ To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ 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… Bell Hooks
“ Okay, then, what was he like? Just give me something to go on so that I have a shot at him!''A shot at him? Are you on an elk hunt? Sara Zarr
“ He hadn't wooed her, but had simply claimed her. A gold mine ready to dig. There should have been a period of quiet dinners together, of flowers rather than diamonds, of kisses given after permission… Colleen McCullough
“ Happy? asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure. Honore de Balzac
“ Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a… Mark Epstein
“ Before you ever get the person you really want in your life, you will be tested with every person that was wrong for you. You will be tempted with what was easy, what was familiar, what was only physi… Shannon L. Alder
“ Falling in love with you was out of my control, but I do have a say in what happens next. And, I will choose to stay in love with you through everything this life throws at us. Liz Newman
“ You are my beautiful forever... a connection so deep that even an eternity doesn't seem long enough to spend with you. Steve Maraboli