It is funny how when you have been hurt in love and you fall in love again, every reason you have for loving that person is both enough and not, all at once.

When words failed I realized there was something unspeakably beautiful in not being able to put words to your happiness.

He asked me once what I wanted when I died, what I wanted out of life, and I told him I just wanted more happy memories than sad ones.

Sleeping with books is a vicious affair, I do not believe it will ever stop.

Love no longer becomes a feeling - it becomes a storm.

I found there are many things women ask for in a love. Other women demand money, power, or adventure. All I pray for is that he is patient, and plead that he will love me.

Your beauty will be in shades of melanin and light.

I love the way you lit candles, with the insistence that I never look, just so I can open my eyes and find the light in the darkness.

I'm starting to learn that if things are messy, or pieces don't get put back right, they are going to hurt, either way.

I will never ask of you the impossible, I just ask you to love me in the best way you can.

But, darling, I need you to know, you loving me will not heal me. Please realize, I already know that. And I do not expect it to.

Over the years, I have been subjected to many indignities, all for the sake of Art. If I ever catch him, I'm going to kill the guy.

Single ladies, we are not Damsels in Distress…we are Divas that Impress!

My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.

It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.

This is [her] soul group.’ What do you mean?’ It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely.

In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.

A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.

He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost

Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.