#hip

I would see him, Edward.' It was no request; he knew it to be an ultimatum. He shook his head violently, not trusting his voice. Time passed. She was staring at him, saying nothing, and on her face was a look of stunned disbelief, of anguished accusation he knew would haunt him for the rest of his life. But when she spoke, her voice held no hint of tears. It was not a voice to offer either understanding or absolution, spoke of no quarter given, of a lifetime of love denied. 'God may forgive you for this,' she said, very slowly and distinctly, 'but I never shall. ↗

— Sharon Kay Penman

#forgiveness

...I dare say if you'd asked him plumply what he meant in regard to the young lady, he would have told you - if he knew.' 'Why, don't you think he does know, Bromfield?' 'I'm not at all sure he does. You women think that because a young man dangles after a girl, or girls, he's attached to them. It doesn't at all follow. He dangles because he must, and doesn't know what to do with his time, and because they seem to like it. I dare say that Tom has dangled a good deal in this instance because there was nobody else in town. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#love #love

The first few years eamonn and I were together I wasn't sure I even liked him, let alone loved him. ↗

— Anna McPartlin

#love

Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why she had trained the vines of her affection on such a wind-shaken poplar. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love #relationships #love

Treat your relationship with your writing as an important one. Seperti hubungan kamu dengan pacar, teman-teman dan keluarga. Temukan komitmen untuk terus berjalan maju, dan tentukan target untuk tulisanmu (secara waktu, juga secara kualitas), lalu terapkan disiplin untuk mencapai deadline. ↗

— Winna Efendi

#relationship

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand. ↗

— John Ortberg

#expectation-s #leadership #art

Each time he came he would twist my defenceless body into a different pose, as if I were his very own doll ↗

— Rachel Abbott

#abusive-relationships #relationship

You know that feeling you get when you pass by a cop doing like 20 over, when your stomach hits the floor and you get weak in the knees and it seams like time just stops for a min? Thats how i feel every time i see her. I love it. ↗

— Andrew Vyvyan

#love #relationship #love

Forever...' he smiled at me, expectant, knowing I knew the end of the ominous sentence. I grinned and waited a whole minute before responding '...and always'. ↗

— Mercy Cortez

#relationships #romance #love

Practice transforms a skill into an art ↗

— Siddharth Joshi

#business #inspirational #leadership #practice #art