#relatio

I love you, he thought, because you are honest with me and because you are willing to speak the truth to me when others might seek to curry favor instead. I love you because you are in this bed with me, not trying to conceive the much-awaited next generation of Windhams, but just holding my hand. -- Gayle Windham ↗

— Grace Burrowes

#relationships #love

But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time. ↗

— Helen Simonson

#relationship #love

One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish. ↗

— James Salter

#life #love #relationship #faith

I pretend he doesn’t exist, and he does the same with me. ↗

— Ida Løkås

#funny #life #pretend #relationship #funny

Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#love #media #relationships #humor

Sure am glad I'm not royalty," I muttered. "I wouldn't want to have to bump uglies with someone I can't stand. On a regular basis. And no one else." "Ow!" I exclaimed, trying to yank my fingers from Trent but finding them caught. Then I colored, realizing what I'd said. "Oh… sorry," I stammered, meaning it. "That was insensitive." Trent's frown turned into a sly smirk. "Bump uglies?" he said, eyes on the table behind me. "You are a font of gutter slang, Rachel. We must do this again. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#relationships #humor

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship. ↗

— Rollo May

#meaning #relationship #existentialism

It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#daughter #katniss #mom #punishing #relationships

Back at home, days later, feel cranky and tired. Sit on the couch and tell him he's stupid. That you bet he doesn't know who Coriolanus is. That since you moved in you've noticed he rarely reads. He will give you a hurt, hungry-to-learn look, with his James Cagney eyes. He will try to kiss you. Turn your head. Feel suffocated. (from "How") ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#discontent #relationships #home

..he had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later. ↗

— Ransom Riggs

#heart #love #relationship #friendship