The bigger the front, the bigger the back.

It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don’t understand.

I want to change, but not if it means changing.

A lot of people, especially psychoanalysts, assume that happiness can only be found in a couple - but not all of us are made for a relationship.

we all try to silence painful emotions. but when we succeed in feeling nothing we lose the only means we have of knowing what hurts us and why.

For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.

Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand - when you're loved, someone wants more of you.

When I'm in a couple, I feel I'm disappearing, dying - losing my mind.

The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don’t listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.

There had to be one universe — just this one — where we don’t end up together. Here and now just happens to be it.

In Italy the Coach is a paratrooper who jumps out of the plane but doesn't know if the parachute will open or not.

Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked.

Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored.

Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood.

Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.

She's vibrator dependent.