#ions

He never told me that he loved me." "Some men don't," she says. "Some men say it all the time and don't mean it." I recognize myself in the latter category, not with Demetri but with one of his predecessors. I sometimes said "I love you" to Josh because I was afraid I didn't; toward the end, I hardly said it at all, and when I did I meant, I WISH I LOVED YOU. ↗

— Melissa Bank

#love

My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905 ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#gothic #gwenn-wright #love #relationships #romance

She cried and he held her and he cried too. He didn't think that either could say what they were crying about, but it was something they needed to do, right now, together, and then, quite suddenly, they were laughing, hard, brash laughter that came up from someplace deep. ↗

— Elizabeth Brundage

#healing-the-past #love

Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#relationships #love

This does not escape my notice, it is a context. I resent the fact of a context; my social status has shifted and no one is going to acknowldege it, that´s certain. I´m expected to be Brave and Rise Above. I dress for the role; I must look far better now that I did when I was married. I must look pulled together into a nice tight Hermès knot of self-containment. I don´t make the rules; I just do my best to follow them. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

There isn't much difference between "giving" and "leaving". While the former will ALWAYS come back to you, the latter will only do if it was meant to be yours in the first place. ↗

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

#breaking-up #giving #heartbreak #leaving #love

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#men-and-women #men

Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love. ↗

— Bonnie Eaker Weil

#marriage #relationships #love

The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#decisions #marriage

Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship. ↗

— Rob Bell

#marriage #relationships #romance #sex #submission