95 quotes found
Writer · American
American writer
“a bit of a dirty fighter, quick with cutting words that he later regrets and doesn't really mean. Then again, I wonder if there isn't always a grain of truth in them, somewhere”
“People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.”
“I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.”
“I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the relationship data in a computer and have it spit out a definitive answer. ...”
“I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and less that. He is better or worse in these ways. It is human nat...”
“I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to ...”
“Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between ado...”
“I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap...”
“The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.”
“But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.”
“But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.”
“I know that the problem isn't the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake.”
“Being married cuts on your freedom. Having a husband or a relationship at all puts constraints on you. by Michael.”
“Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.”
“No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.”
“It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empat...”
“...recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void...”
“In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.”
“Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also have the old standby catchall--the blind belief...”
“Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.”
