She always said, 'I know you like this,' which was a lie, because he had told her he didn't the last time.

Love is when you care for somebody, and you be willing to go out of your way and do anything for that person, and to take care of that person, and if they have problems, that you can help them out any...

My peer would have to be dark-haired and handsome, a wonderful dancer... and he would never ask permission before he kissed me. - Lillian Bowman

"Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip. "No, the divorce was great," I said. "It was the marriage that sucked."

This isn't what I expected when I found out you were sleeping in the house. "What did you expect?" "I expected you'd come over here because you couldn't wait an extra minute to have fabulous,...

This larder of memories, of sex, of life, of family that we had built up, could always be called upon in the leaner times of our relationship... Everything we had built together over twenty years was...

What role was she expected to play in his life, and more important, in her own?

Taylor beamed at Suzi. Hey! You're my sister! Mine

She rejected the beckoning peace, fought to hang on to life. Mikhail's life. She wanted to brush her fingertips over the lines of strain she knew would be around his mouth. She wanted to ease his...

That was the first time I realized that some people had something truly beautiful and it was called family. I wanted that for myself - and that tea set. It was elegant and beautiful, and it...

She could be soft and sensitive. He'd provide the armor for her.

In the same way that a fiancée is a bride-to-be, I've always thought a girlfriend is a fiancée-to-be. Yes, most relationships bite the dust before things get long-term. However, that possibility of...

Love is . . . needing to be with this one person. No - it's more like wanting to need to be with this one person. Last semester my English professor read us this great Robert Frost quotation that went...

I stood there for a moment, playing emotional catch-up. He drove down from the Navarre House just to surprise me with flowers. And not because it's Valentine's Day, and I feel obligated to have...

It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not...

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them, I said. Isaac shot me a look. Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping...

At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.

She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her.

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

She had lived long enough to learn that families didn't dissolve or reconfigure neatly, but left debris lying everywhere, and it was human debris. And sometimes, like tonight, she felt as if she were...

I'm prepared to be a very patient man when it comes to you. I will seduce you for however long it takes – give you space if you need it or follow you tight as sunshine on your shoulder if you'll let...

The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart.

Know what the best thing your true love can give you is?" I asked him. "What?" said Dash. "True love."

I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow...

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

Marriage is a young man's disaster and an old man's comfort.

Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die.

Why did he kiss you? she said.

Nobody is perfect. Everyone who has ever loved someone has had to overlook something.