#hip

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#ahead #close #enough #far #leaders

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear ↗

— Octavia E. Butler

#earthseed #leadership #love #change

Somehow he'd become the one constant in this whole uneven chapter in her life, & the idea that could change was unsettling. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#love #change

he wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that made out in the hallways between classes, and got annoyed at even the slightest sapppy moments in movies. But I knew he cared about me: he just conveyed it more subtly, as concise with expressing this emotion as he was with everything else. It was in the way he'd put his hand on the small of my back, for instance, or how he'd smile at me when I said something that surprised him. Once I might have wanted more, but I'd come around to his way of thinking in the time we'd been together. And we were together, all the time. So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#love #relationships #love

You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#honesty #love #relationships #love

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level. ↗

— Jay-Z

#music #poetry #rap #music

It’s a little early in our relationship for us to be ‘surmounting,’ but, hey, I’m game if you are. I’ll even let you be on top.” He looked directly at me, a coy smile playing on his lips. ↗

— Stacey Marie Brown

#humor #paranormal-romance #quotes #stacey-marie-brown #relationship

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music. ↗

— Jay-Z

#music #rap #music

Revolting’ was the last word I ever spoke as someone who’d never kissed a girl. ↗

— David Mitchell

#relationships #relationship

I was going for the devious smile that would suddenly light up his face each time he'd read my mind, when all I really wanted was skin, just skin. ↗

— André Aciman

#relationship