6 Quotes by Bella DePaulo

Home, to many of the people I interviewed, is a good, comfortable feeling about the place where they live, and a sense that their place is going to be theirs for a while....Home is any place, any experience that feeds his soul "in some positive way".

People are generally not direct in everyday interactions.

We have a fairly stable view of ourselves. We expect other people to see that same view immediately.

People tell about two lies a day, or at least that is how many they will admit to.

There's always a trade-off between how you want to feel and what you want to know,

I never could have considered that if I were part of a couple. Even now I'm not sure it will pay off. But in a marriage, I would have felt that I was not pulling my weight.