#hips

I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely attractive men were essentially good. Delusion detest focus and romance provides the veil. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#delusion #divorce #infidelity #marriage #men

Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones. ↗

— Evan Davis

#britain #cars #chips #defense #designing

If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit. ↗

— Kristen Crockett

#relationships #self-help #anger

Nobody can make me smile like the way you do. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#love

People fight over parking spaces more than they do for each other; then they bemoan the fact they can't find love. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#relationships #love

Some people want it all and expect it all; always looking outward, so often proclaiming what they deserve, even more saying what they want, and all thinking another should provide it for them. Do they ever bother to be the person they think someone else would love to have? ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#relationships #love

It was probably not so unusual to be a different person with a different man, for all parts were authentically within, waiting to be coaxed out by one person or another ↗

— Anita Shreve

#love #relationships #love

Cáel sighed. “Look, right now? Either you want Rose, or you don’t. If you do—and, quite frankly, it’s obvious to me that you do—then give the woman a break and give yourself some credit for not being a whack job. Women are strange creatures, Gray, and she isn’t a mind reader. Who the hell knows what kind of conclusions she’s drawn over your behavior? Shit or get off the pot.” It was a good thing Gray wasn’t drinking anything, or he’d have choked on that one. “That’s your advice on love? ‘Shit or get off the pot’? ↗

— Riley Shane

#relationships #love

I am sensible that to own an inclination for a man is to put one's self wholly in his power; but sure you have generosity enough not to abuse it. ↗

— Mary Pierrepont

#men #relationships #women #love

The weak would never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh & ungenerous kingdom & that women gives themselves only to men of resolute spirit, who provides the security they need in order to face life ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love