I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you’re single among a room full of couples.
…love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.
I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.
But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.
Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
Life’s not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.
We are one of those couples i used to watch, thinking to myself that I’d never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it actually was, I am happy to be wrong about that.
What every girl dreams of when she’s dumped is – that the guy will someday feel regrest and come back and tell her all about it. And the beauty of it is you have no regrets whatsoever.
You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel.” (Something Borrowed)
I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.
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 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 late in the game.
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.It cheapens the giver and the recipient.
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.
And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.
As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.
Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don’t go around asking what her reasons are.
The mind-blowing, ridiculous sex which was the stuff of both poetry and porn – so unlike anything else I had ever experienced before.
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
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 empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.
…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.
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.
Although I’m sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.
I know that the problem isn’t the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake.
his unwavering confidence – but now, it feels like a brand of indifference
So there the two of us were. Frozen in time, living in the moment, focused only on our immediate desires. Which of course included sex. Lots and lots of it.
Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It’s amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room.
But certainly not everyday you can find someone who wants to have a monogamous relationship
True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.
He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.
I realize thirty is just a number, that you’re only as old as you feel and all that. I also realize that in the grand scheme of things, thirty is still young. But it’s not that young.
I’m glad you were both here,” I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives.
and more important, did he love me as much as he once loved me?
You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.
I don’t know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don’t know why I didn’t love her. It’s something you can’t really control.
Why is a Christmas tree better than a man? Because it stays up, has cute balls, and looks good with the lights on!
Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past
What if two people want to be your partner, then what?
His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.
desperately wanting to define what’s in the air between us but unwilling to make the first move
Someday being with Dex will be a distant memory. This fact makes me sad too. Its the initial stages of grief that seem to be worst but in some ways, Its sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they’re missed in your life.
We both have a lot of growing-up to do… A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own.” — Leo
No, scratch the word “career.” Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.
Would they retreat or move forward? Could they do this thing they were on the verge of doing? Did they have it in them to make a wrong decision just because it felt right?
Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!
I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.
A theme in a lot of my books – and in my own life – is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.