“This is a serious issue: most people don't have true friends. Please search for one. It's not your wife or husband. This is just a real friend - someone who connected to you without any existing relationship, but still got your back no matter what.”
Source: Who Is Your Friend?: The School Of Friendship
“Richard Farson, professor at the Humanistic Psychology Institute in San Francisco, says, “Millions of people in America have never had one minute in their whole lifetime where they could ‘let down’ and share with another person their deeper feelings.”
Source: Who Is Your Friend?: The School Of Friendship
“And I think my husband knows who he married,' I say. Grady laughs. 'I would think if this taught you anything, it’s that no one knows who they marry,' he says.”
Source: The Last Thing He Told Me
“Each partner comes into a romantic coupleship with a complicated relationship with money that includes many unconscious beliefs,
assumptions, and expectations. A marriage or a committed relationship is as much a financial partnership as it is a romantic one.”
Source: Coupleship Inc: From Financial Conflict to Financial Intimacy
“We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you.”
Source: I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
“As in most marriages, the most important person for me to build a relationship with was my mother-in-law.”
Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
“Avoiding the Scylla of the nunnery, Hermia sails dangerously close to the Charybdis of Titania's lust for the ass-headed Bottom, but emerges safely, and somewhat more self-knowledgeably, into the orderly harbor of marriage.”
Source: Coming of Age in Shakespeare
“Everything she ever wanted had manifested itself; the destination wedding, the man she envisioned spending the rest of her life with, and the people she loved more than anything there to share the special day with her.”
Source: Let's Be Friends...Always
“I will always choose you”
Source: Let's Be Friends...Always
“Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel toward the bright God Light and your dead grandma walking up to hug you--do you want to be hearing another radio commercial for a mega, clearance, closeout, blow-out liquidation car-stereo sale?”
Source: Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey