When You Hold a Grudge

“When you hold a grudge, you want someone else’s 

sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet.” 

~ Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You:

 Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Mocking a Woman

“Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. 

It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.” 

~ Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

Do You Know What it Means

“Do you know what it means to come home at night 

to a woman who'll give you a little love, 

a little affection, a little tenderness? 

It means you're in the wrong house, t

hat's what it means.”

 

~ Henny Youngman

There Comes a Time

“There comes a time in your life when you have to 

choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” 

~ Shannon L. Alder

if You need Something

“If you need something from somebody always 

give that person a way to hand it to you.” 

~ Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

Most Everything You Think

“Most everything you think you know about me 

is nothing more than memories.” 

~ Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

It's Probably a Bad Indicator

“It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle 

when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.” 

~ Charlaine Harris, Dead to the World

It Takes Three to Make Love

“It takes three to make love, not two:
you, your spouse, and God. 

Without God people only succeed in bringing out
the worst in one another. 

Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other
soon find there is nothing else. 

Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.” 

~ Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary:

 Lessons from Cana and Calvary

When We Face Pain

“When we face pain in relationships our first response 

is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment."

~ Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

This is What Happened in Love

“This is what happened in love. 

One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.” 

~ Lorrie Moore, Like Life

I Felt Like an Animal

“I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?” 

~ Jess C. Scott, Wicked Lovely

Only Someone Who Is Ready

“Only someone who is ready for everything, 

who doesn't exclude any experience, 

even the most incomprehensible, 

will live the relationship with another person as 

something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.” 

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

You Can Measure the Happiness

“You can measure the happiness of a marriage by 

the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, 

earned from years of biting back angry words.” 

~ Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

We Die

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, 

tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into 

and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we 

have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. 

I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead.

 I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, 

not just to label ourselves on a map like the names

 of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, 

communal books. We are not owned or monogamous 

in our taste or experience.” 

~ Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

Every Woman

“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, 

has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded 

a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” 

~ Shannon L. Alder