He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

He reached out and intertwined our hands. Gently urging me forward he whispered, “Have I lost you love?

It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.

I really don’t care what people think.

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

Geoff Nelder inhabits Science Fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes.

We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.

Every wave is new until it breaks.

Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?