If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is… — Merle Shain Beginnings and endings Copy Share Image
Girls gave sex to get love and boys gave love to get sex and conning girls was the favorite indoor sport. — Merle Shain Boys Copy Share Image
There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even… — Merle Shain Book Copy Share Image
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. — Merle Shain Blessing Copy Share Image
But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind? — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are… — Merle Shain Cynical Copy Share Image
Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon. — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you… — Merle Shain Life Copy Share Image
Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Feelings take you into uncharted territory from time to time it's true, but you almost always benefit from the journey one way… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out far, and they are arteries that feed our lives, so we… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach… — Merle Shain Chance Copy Share Image
No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that… — Merle Shain Best marriage Copy Share Image
Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you… — Merle Shain Friend Copy Share Image
One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for… — Merle Shain Affair Copy Share Image
