#ions

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#broken

You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you. ↗

— Jeff Kinney

#kids

She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from a central bronze sphere. Cables resembling giant metal noodles snaked across the floor and ran up the walls. “How does that thing even work?” Percy asked. “No idea,” Annabeth said. “And I’m the only one besides Leo who can operate it.” “That’s reassuring.” “It should be fine. It’s only threatened to blow up once.” “You’re kidding, I hope.” She smiled. “Come on. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#explosions #heroes-of-olympus #humor #leo-valdez #mechanics

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#pain #relationships #relationships

What you want most you push away from you. You want more than you care to admit. ↗

— Tarjei Vesaas

#relationships

And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone. ↗

— John Green

#relationships #the-fault-in-our-stars #relationships

I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#relationships

When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. ↗

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#talking #relationships

Cheating and lying aren't struggles, they're reasons to break up. ↗

— Patti Callahan Henry

#infidelity #lying #relationships #struggles #relationships

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken. ↗

— Jane Austen

#honesty #relationships #truth #relationships