Taylor Jenkins Reid

I liked being needed by him. I liked making his food for him, running his baths for him, massaging his muscles. I liked caring for him, taking care of him. It made me feel like I had a real purpose. It felt so good to make him feel even the littlest bit better.

Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.

And here’s why it worked: man or woman, gay, straight, bisexual, you name it, we all just want to be teased.

Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.

What’s that saying? Behind every gorgeous woman, there’s a man sick of screwing her? Well, it works both ways. No one mentions that part.

Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices.

Sweetheart, I’m telling you, you love someone like that, you love them the right way, and no time would be enough. Doesn’t matter if you had thirty years,” she tells me. “It wouldn’t be enough.

I find myself smiling, finally. I guess I do remember how to do it. You just turn the corners of your mouth up.

True love doesn’t always last,” I say. “It doesn’t always have to be for a lifetime. ” “Right. And that doesn’t mean it’s not true love,” Jesse says. It was real. And now it’s over. And that’s OK. “I am who I am because I loved you once,” he says. “I am who I am because I loved you once, too,” I say. And then we say good-bye.

No matter how strong you are, no matter how smart you are or tough you can be, the world will find a way to break you. And when it does, the only thing you can do is hold on.

Life is too short to be on a diet.

My passion is capturing what it feels like to love, be it romantic or otherwise. I love to watch two people realize what they meant for each other - and that goes across all media, books, TV, movies, personal essays; everything.

I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet. .