Galatea was a serious girl. She was pale and looked like tears all over. Big Ed passed his hand through his hair and said hello. She looked at him steadily. Where have you been? Why did you do this to...

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.

Really? Is he running for Worst Boyfriend Ever?

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...

The difference between social media and a social life is the difference between eating a marshmallow Peep and dining on a tomahawk - cut rib eye: one is substantial and nutritious; the other is just a...

Ghastek, why haven't you married? I asked. He gave me a thin-lipped smile. Because if I were to get married, I would want to have a family. To me, marriage means children. So what's the problem?...

Do you have a girlfriend? Grandma Frida asked. I put my hand over my face. No, Mad Rogan said. A boyfriend? Grandma Frida asked. No. What about ... No, Mom and I said in unison. But you don't even...

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

What is wrong with you? Many, many things.

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

Make Every Man Want You: How to Be So Irresistible You'll Barely Keep from Dating Yourself!

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...

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one "object"...

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.

Networking is not going to networking events and handing out business cards - that's flyering. It is instead about forming, developing, and maintaining real relationships. It's about being valuable...

I was more than forty by then, said Miles sadly. I was married. I had two children. But, from the look of me, I was still twenty-two. My wife, she finally made up her mind I had sold my soul to the...

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

The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.

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...

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