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“I never told her the other story, in which she stars, in which she is always the heroine – a romanticized story full of cliché images in which I am telling her all the things there has not been eno...”
“because in the past words have only driven them apart.”
“But we'd only had so many nights together, and the notebook had so many pages, and the world was never going to get bigger.”
“Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spoke that beguiling combination of amusement and haughtiness that she carried off so well. It was a...”
“Do you mind?” she asked.“Mind what?”“While you were looking in the mirror I couldn’t help myself and I began fantasizing about you. And I figured if I was going to continue to fantasize about you, ...”
“Quit trying to change others. You haven’t done such a great job on yourself – yet.”
“We came together in a dance of death and so quickly was I sucked down into the vortex that when I came to the surface again I couldn't recognize the world. When I found myself loose the music had c...”
“Boundaries keep people out mine served only to keep me in.”
“In today's romantic climate, many people are plagued by what we will call "the upgrade problem". Singles constantly wonder whether there is a better match, an upgrade.”
“To make him important in one’s life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never knows when to quit.”
“A ‘complete man’ has a regret that he cannot bear a baby; whereas it is rather ironic that a self-styled ‘complete woman’ takes pride in denouncing that divine blessing. In fact, there is nothing l...”
“Don’t use “below-the-belt” tactics. These include: blam- ing, interpreting, diagnosing, labeling, analyzing, preaching, moralizing, ordering, warning, interrogating, ridiculing, and lecturing. Don’...”
“I’m actually really worried that nobody will ever fall in love with me.”
“They’d fallen into their old ways, accusatory and evasive, which was reassuring in a perverted way. Leo understood the nasty pull of the regrettable familiar, how the old grooves could be so much m...”
“But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling”
“I can get on with someone really, really, really well… and if they’re no good at having sex with me, it really upsets me, because I think, “oh God, this is someone I’d really like to spend the rest...”
“Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down v...”
“That’s what sex does: it starts relationships and it verifies the end of relationships.”
“Sometimes,’ he starts, ‘the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.”
“But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don’t you think?”
