#hi

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean? ↗

— Graeme Simsion

#love #relationships #the-rosie-project #love

But Harry knew now that love was a soldier. It can invade the human heart. Build canopies through jungles. Scale castle walls. Cross moats. Love can probably walk on water. ↗

— Cathie Pelletier

#relationships #wisdom #love

Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature? ↗

— Jean-Dominique Bauby

#heart-wrenching #inspirational #inspirational

and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#philosophy #inspirational

Not invade her privacy! Just sit back and give up on her, as if she were a missing pet or mitten, or dropped penny. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#love

A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other. ↗

— Mary Jo Putney

#marriage #marriage

He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#heartbreak #love #physics #relationships #love

The Hikayat belongs to ALL of us. To love. To share. To cherish. ↗

— ninotaziz

#legends #love

But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it was an effect of the distance between them becoming less and less tolerable with each passing day, since as we grow old - for every now and then one must, yes, look reality in the eye and call things by their proper names - we feel more keenly the need to have the person we love beside us. ↗

— Andrea Camilleri

#love #reality-check #love

[...] when you know, you know. And you don't fight it. You don;t deny the inevitable. You free fall because you know there's someone there to catch you on the other side. ↗

— S.L. Jennings

#falling-in-love #fear-of-falling #life #love #relationships