#ff

I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or serious or what. This bothered me. Or intrigued me. Or both. ↗

— Sarah Dessen Along for the Ride

#difficuly #feelings #infatuation #intrigue #joke

We have come here together so that you might know, through virtue of your own pain, your own hopelessness, your own fear, your own darkness and the lie of powerlessness, the very actual power of your own will, of the will of your soul. ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#encouragement #hard-times #life #motivational #power

Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might. ↗

— Shri Radhe Maa

#meditation #quotes-and-saying #quotes-of-life #radhey-ma #shri-radhe-maa-official-blog

My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#suffering #love

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#am #difficult #get #get married #go

I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have a feeling that they can’t hide. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#music #the-beatles #marriage

The true love is unconditional. Marriage is a conditional bond. ↗

— Toba Beta

#love #marriage #love

And it was during this period that Madeleine fully understood how the lover's discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn't physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in the company of the person you loved. It was extreme because it was in your head, the most solitary of places. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#the-marriage-plot #love

One thing I learned, between addiction and depression? Depression a lot worse. Depression ain't something you just get off of. You can't get clean from depression. Depression be like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch where it hurts. It always be there, though. Darlene, in The Marriage Plot ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#the-marriage-plot #marriage

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty