“I want my relationship with my girlfriend to be built on trust, not toothpicks, rubber bands, and lentil beans.”

“I want my relationship with my future boyfriend to be built on trust, not in alcohol , not in the appearance , and in jealous eyes”

“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.”

“That was the extent of our relationship, but I knew he used me to keep Were women from insinuating themselves into his life. My gaze landed on the fat little black book beside his phone. Apparently that didn’t slow him down when it came to dating. Dang, he needed a rubber band to keep the thing shut.”

“I put value in things. These children, having no things, put value in God. I put my trust in relationships; these children, having already seen relationships fail, put their trust in the Lord.”

“To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.”