He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.

But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while Just for a few months of ones life is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it Or to nap in a garden in a patch of sunlight in the middle of the day right next to your favourite fountain And then to do it again the next day

I met an old lady once almost a hundred years old and she told me There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over all through history. How much do you love me And Whos in charge

One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated with. To feel physically comfortable with someone elses body is not a decision you can make. It has very little to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there buried somewhere deep behind the sternum or it is not. When it isnt there as I have learned in the past with heartbreaking clarity you can no more force it to exist than a surgeon can force a patients body to accept a kidney from the wrong donor. My friend Annie says it all comes down to one simple question Do you want your belly pressed against this persons belly forever --or not

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

In desperate love we always invent the characters of our partners demanding they be what we need of them and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balancedlife.

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man rather than with the man himself and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time sometimes far too long waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit and thats what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror the person who shows you everything that is holding you back the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person youll ever meet because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever Nah. Too painful. Soul mates they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you and then leave. A soul mates purpose is to shake you up tear apart your ego a little bit show you your obstacles and addictions break your heart open so new light can get in make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life then introduce you to your spiritual master...

This is a good sign having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.