#hips

I never told her the other story, in which she stars, in which she is always the heroine – a romanticized story full of cliché images in which I am telling her all the things there has not been enough time for, in which we are doing all the things there has not been time for… ↗

— Penelope Lively

#relationship

After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#alone #find #home #i #myself

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#create #heads #i #i can #institutions

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#real #solitude #worst

We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#changed #colleges #expanded #formula #funding

I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day? ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#day #dodger #get #going #how

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage. ↗

— Halle Berry

#alone #done #going #i #luck

They realized that, in fact, the lie wasn't safe. That it threatened their existence more profoundly than the truth did. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#relationships #truth #beauty

Was our life together that unbearable? ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#key-quote #lionel-shriver #relationships #life

You're mine, Echo, and I'll treasure you forever. ↗