#relatio

Religious institutions perpetuate a mortal master-servant relationship,” Leto said. “They create an arena which attracts prideful human power-seekers with all of their nearsighted prejudices! ↗

— Frank Herbert

#religion #relationship

Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spoke that beguiling combination of amusement and haughtiness that she carried off so well. It was a look that expressed disdain at Campion’s guarded advances but also a kind of measured probationary respect as well. It was a look that said You dare to think that I will find you as interesting as you obviously find me Well perhaps in that very act of daring you become interesting to me if only fleetingly. ↗

— Alastair Reynolds

#relationship

I think I'd convinced myself that all long-term relationships end up that way; I really thought I had no right to expect more. ↗

— Catherine Sanderson

#settling-for-second-best #relationship

I have something very important to say to you, but I can't tell you what it is. It's a very important thing, but I'll tell you another time. ↗

— Rhona Cameron

#relationship

Thinking this is "The One" becomes an excuse to let your own life deteriorate. ↗

— TammyJo Eckhart

#romance #relationship

The Supreme cult does not bear any relationship with the ordinary course of life. The physical body, after attainment of the Supreme Cult will remain as it was before. It will feel pleasure and pain as it used to do. One must be earning his honest livelihood. It is only possible for a man without the least tinge of desire that ‘to see God is for the sake of seeing God’ and ‘to attain God is for the sake of attaining God’ only." - Sri Jibankrishna ↗

— Jibankrishna

#god #physical #supreme #relationship

The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking. ↗

— Alessandra Torre

#love #marriage #relationships #relationships-love #respecting-others

The reason for my discomfort was simple. Our story - however romantic I could make it sound in my head - sometimes sounded a little tawdry in the re-telling. There was no escaping the fact that I'd been living with the father of my child when we met; that I'd cheated on him, then left; that what James and I now shared was born out of the ruins of another relationship. ↗

— Catherine Sanderson

#awkward-beginnings #relationship

She was Grandma Will. That term felt foreign and unfitting to the relationship they had. She wondered if her father had ever called her Mother, Ma, Mom, Mama? Maybe in private he might have, but to the world, all the world, it was Aunt Will. ↗

— Pamela Morsi

#pamela-morsi #the-lovesick-cure #relationship

A related question is where in time to begin. Should you begin far back in a character's past and move forward, or should you begin in the present and make use of flashbacks only where necessary? ... If the material with which you want to open the story is from the character's deep past, then there has to be an important relationship between what has happened in the past and what is about to happen. In other words, is the material with which you open the story an arrow pointing toward the unified effect? ↗

— Julie Checkoway

#fiction-novel #fiction-writing #on-fiction #relationship