#hips

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty. ↗

— Pandora Poikilos

#love #relationships #self-help #vp-shunt #love

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#relationships #weirdness #weird

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#friend #loneliness #relationships #safety #sister

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

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

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

you can take this mouth this wound you want but you can't kiss and make it better. ↗

— Daphne Gottlieb

#passion #poetry #relationships #sex #marriage

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#being-loved #love #marriage #relationships #truth

Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another. Committed bonds (including marriage) cannot last when this is the prevailing logic. Most of us are unclear about what to do to protect and strengthen caring bonds when our self-centered needs are not being met. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#love