Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones

Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.

...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.

Love was the secret behind everything...love was what made vineyards grow and filled the spaces between the stars, and fixed the ground beneath his feet. It didn't matter if you acknowledged it or not. You couldn't stop the motion of the earth or hold back the ocean tides, or break the pull of the moon. You couldn't stop the rain or pull a shade over the sun.

Aristotle taught that stars are made of a different matter than the four earthly elements— a quintessence— that also happens to be what the human psyche is made of. Which is why man’s spirit corresponds to the stars. Perhaps that’s not a very scientific view, but I do like the idea that there’s a little starlight in each of us.

I've never been convinced that everything in a relationship needs to be talked about. Some things can't be fixed by a conversation