No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by other women, period.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

Our society’s failure to recognize and care for the social and emotional well-being of our boys contributes to a nation of young men who navigate adversity and conflict with an incomplete emotional skill set. Whether boys and later men have chosen to resist or conform to this masculine norm, there is loneliness, anxiety, and pain.

The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why regret one's impulsiveness, one's misjudgment of others? The inevitable discovery that someone is selling letters you'd written in trust is simply to discover an obvious human truth: there are those who don't cherish us as we'd cherished them, and had wished to be cherished by them.

You took the best, so why not take the rest?

and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met