Loneliness and solitude are two totally different things. All the times I’ve been loneliest have been in a crowd.
This casual summer fling has the potential to burn the whole city down and leave a path of smoking ruins in its wake.
The worst thing in life is to give yourself away in exchange for nothing.
Love? Hardly. If you were on a life support machine, I’d unplug it to charge my phone.
Life is too short to look for perfection.
Love is warm and deep and comfortable, just right, so you float in it peacefully without ever being scalded or frozen, like a perfect, relaxing bubble bath.
You’re a guy: you can’t help being a complete idiot. Comes with the junk.
I don’t know what kind of women you’re used to, but my mother didn’t raise a worker bee. She raised a queen.” I stare at him without smiling. “And I don’t give away the honey for free.
My mama always told me there are few things a good hug can’t cure, and those things are what bourbon’s for.
Is this going to be a thing?” I ask, my arms wound around his broad shoulders. “You carrying me around like a sack of potatoes?” “It makes me feel macho bein’ able to lift all this weight – ow!
I love you the way I love the smell of old books.
A true friendship isn’t based on what you think you can get out of it. It’s based on respecting someone enough to let him be who he really is. A true friend is someone who says “I’m here for you” and proves it.
Meeting you is a gift, and it will always be a gift, no matter how long we have together. So what I promised still stands: I’m yours until September. If you still want me.
If I decided to be a serial killer and went on a murderous rampage with a kitchen knife, she’d find some way to be supportive. She’d probably buy me a set of monogrammed cleavers.
Let it be. Accept that you have warring factions inside you. If you’re living by your core values, all the second-guessing is just noise you can give yourself permission to ignore.
I might be an introvert, but I’ve got a temper, and I hold a grudge like nobody’s business.
You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.
Men aren’t like us, baby. They’re dumb as doughnut holes when it comes to love.
Your past is your own business. But you’re asking a lot if you expect me to take every strange thing you say on faith. Mystery is great. Mystery I can take, because mysteries eventually get solved. But secrets?” I shook my head. “I’m not so good with those. If we’re going to get closer, you’re going to have to let me in. That’s part of the deal.” Seeing.
The note is stuck directly under the line I ridiculed during dinner: “Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.