#relatio

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#been #conversation #during #had #last

I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality. ↗

— Elle Thornton

#historic-fiction #military-history #north-carolina #race-relations #young-adult-fiction

That is what you're making of the end of your mother's life, child. What will you make of your own? ↗

— Kage Baker

#life

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#friendship #relationships #faith

Maybe you’re smiling as I stumble to put my feelings into words. But I’m trying to do her justice, you know? ↗

— James Lusarde

#beauty #erotic-romance #erotica #infatuation #love

I write for the beauty of the printed word" from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO ↗

— Anthony Antek

#literature #relationships #social-science #beauty

Her name has been released to the press. Her photograph is released, too. I want to talk to the press about it. I don't want Andi to be a one-day story. I don't want her to be just a headline on the wires. ↗

— Michael Hastings

#love

I am the Trolley of Love. Free rides before noon and after 11:58 am!
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#funny #humor #love #money #relationships

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

#antithesis #bear #being #between #ethics

Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#love #relationships #love