#hip

I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her. ↗

— Charles Yu

#love #relationships #love

You all set?” he asked, tossing me a pair of sunglasses. “Wow, nice.” I felt the frame, rubbing my finger over the lenses to wipe away a smudge. “Not bad, Phoenix.” “Twinkies.” He slid his pair on and adjusted the gun across his chest. “Told you. Breakfast of champions." - Skylla and Jet ↗

— Rachael Wade

#love #survival #friendship

Integrity is the sentry for the conscious soul. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#honesty #integrity #leadership #truth #inspirational

It was his fault, all of it, and yet her hatred for him was the worst kind of love, a tortured longing, a misguided wish that made her heart hammer in her chest. She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two different puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#misunderstanding #puzzles #quarrel #relationship #love

Love is a feeling that is imposed on you. You cannot be lazy; it is up to you to make things work and make the best of it. ↗

— Kyra Gregory

#desire #feelings #love #relationships #sorrow

A righteous wife is a respectful wife. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#marriage #piety #religious #respect #righteous

Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#love #relationships #inspirational

And now here was Arabella, making him feel worse. Maybe that was what she always did; maybe she always made him feel worse, and he'd never really noticed before. Maybe what seemed like the ordinary rough-and-tumble of marriage, combined with hard work and London, was something simpler: the fact that added to any equation, Arabella made it worse. ↗

— John Lanchester

#relationships #support #marriage

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship. ↗

— James Harvey Robinson

#beliefs #companionship #filled #find #formation

The regrets about all she had let go flooded her. Where had all that enterprise gone? All that energy? Why had she never traveled? Or had more sex when she could? She had bleached and annihilated every waking moment of the last twenty years. Anything, rather than feel. ↗

— Rachel Joyce

#marriage #regret #relationships #marriage