Relationships and Family

I was in love with loving.

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

This poem will never reach its destination.

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well.

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.” - William Shakespear e

I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives 40 miles away.

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was, “the man goes on top and the woman underneath.” For three years my husband and I slept on bunk beds.

My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle.

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Men are what their mothers made them.

There’s only one kind of love that lasts—unrequited love. It stays with you forever.

Rome reminds me of a man who lives by exhibiting to travelers his grandmother’s corpse.

Our Irish ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that list up as “Irish politics.”

I love everything about you. Your lips, your eyes, your voice. The only thing I can’t stand is you.

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.

I’m very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

My grandmother is over 80 and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.