Our love was covered in fur yet I was the only one who wanted to pet it.

Didnt I say Id always be your same stars If you get to missing me just look up.

Theres always that one guy who gets a hold on you. Not like your best friends brother who gets you in a headlock kind of hold. Or the little kid youre babysitting who attaches himself to your leg kind of hold. Im talking epic. Life changing. The cant eat cant sleep cant do your homework cant stop giggling cant remember anything but his smile kind of hold. Like Wesley and Buttercup proportions. Harry and Sally. Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. The kind of hold in all your favorite 80s songs like the Must Have Been Loves the Take My Breath Aways the Eternal Flamesthe ones you sing into a hairbrush-microphone at the top of your lungs with your best friends on a Saturday night.

Love I need a lot of love.Of course you do. Everyone does. Its funny that we never say it. Its OK to scream Im starving in public if you are hungry its OK to make a fuss and say Im so sleepy if you are tired but somehow we cannot say I need some more love. Why cant we say it Its just as basic a need. - ONE NIGHT THE CALL CENTER Chapter 36 pages 293-4

Think how you love me she whispered. I dont ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me therell always be the person I am to-night.

She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common sense and she had become drunk on ovarian wine the most potent sanity- destroying substance in the universe.

15. WHENEVER I WENT OUT TO PLAY MY MOTHER WANTED TO KNOW EXACTLY WHERE I WAS GOING TO BEWhen Id come in shed call me into her bedroom take me in her arms and cover me with kisses. Shed stroke my hair and say I love you so much and when I sneezed shed say Bless you you know how much I love you dont you and when I got up for a tissue shed say Let me get that for you I love you so much and when I looked for a pen to do my homework shed say Use mine anything for you and when I had an itch on my leg shed say Is this the spot let me hug you and when I said I was going up to my room shed call after me What can I do for you I love you so much and I always wanted to say but never said Love me less.

So I would choose to be with youThats if the choice were mine to makeBut you can make decisions tooAnd you can have this heart to break

...to be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he cant accept who God is a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people...That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.

Well its simple to love someone she said. But its hard to know when you need to say it out loud.