#ions

I never know what I’m going to want to curl up in bed with.” I shrug. “How about a man?” she retorts. ↗

— Alexandra Potter

#dating #men #relationships #sex #women

It was true. Men could be with whomever they pleased. But women had to date better, kinder, richer, and bright, bright, bright, or else people got embarrassed. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#feminism #feminism-gender #gender #gender-roles #relationships

He’d had to fold his long legs into his desk. His boots had seen better days, and his jeans unraveled in a curiously irresistible way at the bottom. He didn’t look like anyone I’d ever seen before. He reminded me of an actor in an old Western—Rock Hudson in Giant—all dark intensity. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#dating #glass-girl #henry-whitmire #love #meg-kavanagh

People who seek psychotherapy for psychological, behavioral or relationship problems tend to experience a wide range of bodily complaints...The body can express emotional issues a person may have difficulty processing consciously...I believe that the vast majority of people don't recognize what their bodies are really telling them. The way I see it, our emotions are music and our bodies are instruments that play the discordant tunes. But if we don't know how to read music, we just think the instrument is defective. ↗

— Charlette Mikulka

#emotions #health #mind-body-spirit #psychology #wellness

He had the red serviette tucked into his t-shirt at the neck which made me laugh. He hadn’t done this since our third date when I had told him off for his bad manners. ↗

— Kate Chisman

#eating #laugh #love #relationships #together

Let the world know what you live for...not what you fall for! ↗

— John Paul Warren

#faith #john-paul #john-paul-warren #leadership-quotes #mens-qoutes

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . . ↗

— Jennifer Haigh

#companionship #family #growing-up #secrets #sisters

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life #love #relationships #death

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#life #love #relationships #faith

But everything I have to give, I'll give to you ↗

— Ray Lamontagne

#hope #love #relationships #song-lyrics #faith