#hips

The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences. ↗

— John Irving

#relationships #romantic

I've never really had time for romantic relationships. I have much more important things to worry about, like saving the world from zombies. ↗

— J. Cornell Michel

#apocalyptic #importance #important #relationship #relationships

I want to apologize to you, Nikki. Not just, ‘hey, sorry,’ but really. Apologize.” He paused, either to let her absorb it or to find his way, then he went on, “This is all still new to both of us. You and I came to each other with full lives, past baggage, careers, the works. Both of us. And this trip of mine, this was the first time since we got together that you’re seeing what my real work is like. I have the advantage of having gone on ride-along, so you—I get your life, inside and out. Me, I’m an investigative journalist. If I’m doing it right, I’m spending big stretches of time in places nobody else has the balls to go and under conditions most reporters wouldn’t put up with. That explains why I fell off the radar on my story. I told you I might before I left. But it’s no excuse for not calling you when I got in the clear. The only explanation I can give may sound flimsy, but it’s the truth. When I come off assignment, I have a routine. I sleep like the dead and write like the devil, in seclusion. It’s the way I’ve always done it. For years. But now—I realize something’s different now. I’m not the only one involved. “Now, if I could take back the past twenty-four hours, I would, but I can’t. What I can do, though, is say when I look at you now and see the hurt in you—the hurt I caused by being insensitive—I see pain I never want to bring to you again.” He let that sit there, then said, “Nikki, I apologize. I was wrong. And I am sorry. ↗

— Richard Castle

#relationships #writing #life

Why was it that boys said girls were so hard to understand when she hadn't known a single guy who hadn't confused her to the point of screaming? ↗

— C.C. Hunter

#paranormal-romance #relationships #women #ya #ya

Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do. ↗

— John Green

#breaking-up

You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other living creature solid. Against those things, you're only a man. I can deal with you. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#hardships #higher-living

I have three step brothers and one step sister. It’s like a staircase, and I am the slinky. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#sibling-relationships #simile #simile

One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#between #breaking #characters #comedy #ever

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#dissolved #easily #friendships #general #suddenly

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#bat #careers #down #else #friendships