Aristophanes said that boys throw stones at frogs in jest, but the frogs, they die in earnest. You're going to break my life into splinters, then move on without a second thought. Yes, my lord, you...

couldn't be persuaded to part with him.

I think... I said things to Silas. He'll be angry. 'If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him,' was all she said.

I may some day get a boyfriend and eventually a husband, but you will always be my first loves. - Sheetal, 14, Qatar

I could not see other human beings at present.

You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other...

Has anyone ever won an argument with you? Just Tee, and I was drunk and wounded at the time. {Joe}

Have you any idea how hard it is to go nine months out of the year with no sex when you're married to such a fine piece of male anatomy that he should have been the god of fertility instead of the god...

The question then is, how much are you willing to give? And I answered, "Anything." A breath later, Zane echoed my response with, "Everything."

Taking a breath, I stepped into the line to find him standing right where I'd left him, smiling with his hand extended.

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.

Tori: Too many friends can be exhausting. It seems easier to stay alone. Kent: But friendship also brings many benefits. Tori: Are friends really that important? Kent: Think about all the movies...

I gazed up at him as the laughter filled his face, and just loved him. The day had sucked, but Jean-Pierre made it suck a lot less, and that was what love was supposed to do. It was supposed to make...

I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.

Remind me never to piss you off ... Are you as good at being a friend as you are an enemy?

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.

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

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,...

He wasn't looking for perfection, just someone who could make him feel secure enough to show his insecurity beside her.

But then again, maybe a woman never really knew the men in her life.

Anna Wren was not for him. She was of a different class than he, and, moreover, she was a respectable widow from the village. She wasn't a sophisticated society lady who might consider a liaison...

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.

So he pressed his forehead against mine and breathed me in and there was that sun, okay? That sun between us, that bond that burned and burned and burned because he'd given it to me. Because he'd...