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"I love you, he thought, because you are honest with me and because you are willing to speak the truth to me when others might seek to curry favor instead. I love you because you are in this bed with me, not trying to conceive the much-awaited next generation of Windhams, but just holding my hand.-- Gayle Windham"

"On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character."

"One of my main regrets in life is giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people."

"People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome."

"I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place."

"When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances."

"Take me now, God!"I shout to the inky sky. "I´m ready.""You´re not ready. You´re not even divorced yet,"Bunny says. "You cannot die married to that man."

"Between Portland and Seattle is a mint factory, and they made sweets like we made sweet love, and America needs more manufacturers like us."

"Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together."

"Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie."

"Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated."

"He needs "space"and "time,"as if this were physics and not a human relationship."

"In the realm of love and sex, it’s girls who are in the position of working hard to adapt themselves to the needs and fantasies of the mercurial males whose approval and attention they seek."

"My hands will get dirty holding your rose-shaped heart, because love is like gardening—it’s earthy and takes work to keep it alive."

"But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?"

"Because you let our love just fall apartYou no longer have my heart"

"When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember."

"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."

"What is the shape of love? Is it shaped like you? For me it is, but for you maybe it is shaped like me."

"The waves were choppy, like Chuck Norris' karate hands. The ocean would have been still, if I weren't making love in it."