“When a woman appears to express fear, we cannot assure her without at least releasing her from responsibility; when we interpret the same emotion in a man as anger, we want to blame him and be certain he acknowledges responsibility. We want to find her guiltless; we want to find him guilty.”

“Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her—when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?”

“When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.”

“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”

“We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.”

“Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day..”

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.”

“He held her hand because he wanted her heart; then gazed into her empty eyes and realized nothing was there. Often, the emotions of someone we love are dismissed in a continual effort to remain.”

“We read in Rabelais of how the Devil took flight when the woman showed him her vulva.”

“But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn't want to be without her.”