128 quotes found
Writer · American
American writer
“Running away can also be running to.”
“It's shocking the things we call love.”
“A relationship could be a place to hide too.”
“People are secretive when they have secrets.”
“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”
“It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop a...”
“You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.”
“It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.”
“Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people will say that's not love, that you can't really l...”
“When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.”
“I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.”
“It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.”
“This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of g...”
“Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.”
“I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard tal...”
“I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and tur...”
“You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought--put together all those random pieces form everyone who's ever known you from your parents...”
“The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small a...”
“Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.”
“The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple.”
“Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.”
“Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.”
“Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.”
“The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.”
