The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean...

I'm here because she's here, and she belongs to me. ~Rephaim

I tried to find something I already knew about life that might help me reach out and touch my brother and get him to look at me and himself.

I want nothing more than to climb between the silk sheets and wrap our nude bodies around one another. I want to hold and be held. Sex is a wondrous thing, but tonight I wish to be comforted more than...

You can't decide how someone will go about loving you.

Don't you see what's happened? You wanted to be in love again. To feel that feeling where a man you hardly know gazes into your eyes and seems to be the only human being who ever understood the real...

Tommy had been dealing with more than a few adjustments since he'd come west from his hometown of Incontinence, Indiana - not the least of which had been finding a girlfriend, who, while smart, sexy,...

Do you love me, Hero? His pale green eyes were full of torment. Do you love me like I love you?

Give him? Friend, you're disgusting - Kelly said in disbelief. Oh, I'm sorry if I offended your delicate sensibility. I meant to make love to him.

The second message is one that I have saved for weeks. It's Otter, and he simply says, I love you.

I ground my teeth as I bit back words I knew would hurt. That was the danger with knowing and loving others. You always knew things about them to throw back in their faces.

I love you, he told her. Sweet joy rushed through her. But there was a distinct smugness about his words. He'd sensed her feelings in return, and was pleased with himself for doing so. Turns out I...

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

He exhaled the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I inhaled it, as I had always done. I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his...

What do the people closest to you value? Make a list of the most important people in your life - from home, work, church, hobbies, and so on. After making the list, write what each person values most....

You can't tell me that I don't know you. I see you. I see you better than you see yourself. And everything about you is beautiful.

I'd learned from my mother that when someone gives you a subjective compliment - meaning one that can't be disproven and is based on opinion - but that you find to be completely false, rather than...

Who is that? Your replacement. You replaced me with a shaved poodle? He's got mad skills.

"Who are you?' he asked suddenly. 'I'm not sure,' replied the other. 'I rather think I am your long-lost brother."

On page 145, I defined belonging as the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. One of the biggest surprises in this research was learning that fitting in and belonging are not the...

Think of the person you love the most in the world. Do you really see them visually? Or don't you see on a much deeper level? It's lots easier to visualize people we don't know very well.

There is only one form of approaching that does not prevent individual development, does not cause friction or a lack of energy — it is mature love. I mean a complete intimate relationship between...

But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.

In silence, Bird reflected sadly on his wife's misconception of the nature of Swahili.

She was the most confusing person he had ever met

Uncle Tarmac says vehicles always resemble their owners, and likes advising my female cousins to judge whether boyfriends will make decent husbands or not by observing how they treat or mistreat their...

Anything else I should know

We had a kind of pity for each other; we were both afflicted permanently with a feeling of sad helplessness because we were unable to make each other happy in this way. But nothing stopped us from...

Parents might not be keen on the idea of seeing each other, but then essentially

And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without....