there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.

I wonder if she feels from me the thing I feel about her when I touch her. Not in sex, which he understood now was a different thing from everything else. I just mean when I touch her skin before we sleep and I understand all the things beneath it. Animals can't have that. They can't build their loved ones that way and feel right through their skin. That's never worn off, whatever else. He looked a where she slept. I can't imagine living without that.

The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.

Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.

The thing we always loved the most when we pitched this,