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.
Those questions you have? Whether he’s the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you’re not sure whether you’re in love with someone or not, the answer is not.
If you look up “charming” in the dictionary, you’ll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?
And pity – people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you – that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.
I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.
When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.
Love can come when you’re already who you are, when you’re filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.
It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn’t drama.
People are secretive when they have secrets.
A lady I will be, but a man’s accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone’s ornament. I will not just be someone’s honey, baby, sweetheart.
We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.
I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.
But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.
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.
I knew something else, too: It’s human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it’s also arrogant.
Us frogs understand this.
Nice can have an edge.
You knew me. You KNOW me. I can’t imagine my life without you, without someone who knows me that well.
The past is a good place for the past.
We forget that just because something is honest it is not necessarily the truth.