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...

Back at Rachel, thinking that she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

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....

and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it

He understood the flaw in that logic: if comforting them comforted him, maybe comforting him comforted them, and they could all drive the ship into a rock while they smiled at each other.

... but all your 'sorrys' are gone when a person dies... That's why you have to say all your 'sorrys' and 'I love yous' while a person is living, because tomorrow isn't promised.

We are never through with the requirement for acceptance. This isn't a curse limited to the inadequate and the weak. Insecurity may even be a peculiar sign of well-being. It means we haven't allowed...

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

At detumescence, after all, there is conversation, that is where love begins.

Male or female, what did it matter, really, when the body yearned?

A man who is a good lover to his wife is his children's best friend. Child care is play to a woman who is happy. And only a man can make a woman happy. In deepest truth, a father's first duty to his...

For starters, circulating oxytocin levels are elevated in couples when they've first hooked up. Furthermore, the higher the levels, the more physical affection, the more behaviors are synchronized,...

You emptied the top rack of the dishwasher but not the bottom, so the clean dishes have gotten all mixed up with the dirty ones - and now you want to have sex?

The comradeship that welded our lives together made a superfluous mockery of any other bond we might have forged for ourselves. What, for instance, was the point of living under the same roof when the...

I'm looking for me in you, that my hollowness makes it impossible to identify my needs and my desires

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you...

I see marriage as an operation that sews two people together, and divorce is a kind of amputation that can take a long time to heal. The longer you were married, or the rougher the amputation, the...

There's a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and I have never heard it spoken before. Over the last few years, I'd given up looking for that...

People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change.

Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain and sorrow. Well acquainted with pain and sorrow, Stephen...

She soon says, You're my best friend, Ed. I know. You can kill a man with those words.

All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.

But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new light. Hermione, Neville's right - you're a girl... Oh well spotted,

It was some personal friend of the landlord's, who had no wish to meddle in his evening's business, and would not show himself even to the landlord's wife.

Someday, somehow, I would repay my cousin Rachel.

Anything essential is invisible to the eye.

Watch over Honoria, will you? See she doesn't marry an idiot. {Daniel Smythe - Smith}

Love your siblings. Love them well, for they are your blood, and when you are unsure, or times are difficult, they will be the ones to stand by your side.

He felt that now over his every word, his every deed, there was a judge, a judgment, which was dearer to him than the judgments of all the people in the world. He spoke now, and along with his words...