Romance

"In the Mars-and-Venus-gendered universe, men want power and women want emotional attachment and connection. On this planet nobody really has the opportunity to know love since it is power and not love that is the order of the day. The privilege of power is at the heart of patriarchal thinking. Girls and boys, men and women who have been taught this way almost always believe love is not important, or if it is, it is never as important as being powerful, dominant, in control, on top-being right. Women who give seemingly selfless adoration and care to the men in their lives appear to be obsessed with 'love,' but in actuality their actions are often a covert way to hold power. Like their male counterparts, they enter relationships speaking the words of love even as their actions indicate that maintaining power and control is their primary agenda."

"What man would have courage enough to believe he could win you? Bosque laughed. "You exude power. Men are small creatures, easily cowed by those who challenge their sense of self-importance."

"Don't you know romance is mind's way of getting rid of it's own duality?"

"You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind."

"They say love is all about raging hormones. For me, it's mind's way of breaking through its self-imposed limitations in order to set the eternally ecstatic soul free."

"Wrap your mind around my thoughts as I wrap my soul around your heart."

"Throughout the lifetime, the entire neurobiology of a human being goes through relentless perplexing transformations. These sexually dimorphic neurobiological changes create a person’s personality. These unique makeovers of the male and female biology hold the key to a sustainable romantic relationship."

"I wish you a beautiful blessed Father’s Day."

"You didn’t just accidentally win my favor,” I dispute, slowly shaking myforehead against his. “You earned it. Now, if I can just save your life twenty or thirty more times…We might actually be able to call it even."

"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."

"We are one human family."

"Hold my hands and let walk together."

"Wherever we travel to, the wonderful people we meet become our family."

"Cockroaches, Ari. Humans are like cockroaches.” Crag nodded his head, his eyes twinkling."

"The heart in every human is the sacred love."

"There was something about him that had always rubbed her the wrong way. Before her mother’s death, she [Shiara] could remember her saying that he was a nice enough young man, but not the one for her daughter."

"Family is not a career. It’s why you have a career. If you can’t be there for the big moments, then why are you doing it?"

"We had been two sides of the same coin, attached by a force stronger than family or friends. We had been one."

"My mother had been in the Soviet whirlpool for eleven years by this point. Enough time, I imagine, to unlearn the bourgeois habits of her native Brooklyn, to accustom herself to the farting and shouting of her neighbours, to doing her washing by hand in the collective tub, to keeping her dry food locked up in her wardrobe"

"He listens when I talk."