#relatio

It wasn't like there was some obvious change. Actually, the problem was more a lack of change. Nothing about her had changed - the way she spoke, her clothes, the topics she chose to talk about, her opinions - they were all the same as before. Their relationship was like a pendulum gradually grinding to a halt, and he felt out of synch. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love #monotony #relationship #change

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing. ↗

— David Leavitt

#bitter #childlike #exhausted #figure #having

The difference between being content and being blissfully happy is unquantifiable, and only those who experience the latter can understand just how mediocre the former can be. ↗

— Emma Shane

#lgbt #life-lessons #love #relationships #romance

My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men. ↗

— Denene Millner

#directly #found #hear #husband #i

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#blues #hope #i #i love #jazz

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends. ↗

— Addison Mizner

#choose #friends #gives #god #our

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters. ↗

— Stellan Skarsgard

#between #characters #delicate #dragon #girl

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#feminism #hate #love #marriage #married-life

I’m older now than my dad was when he was my age. Wait, that’s not right. That’s not my dad at all, that’s just some stranger hanging around in my memory.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #correct #dad #family #father

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious. ↗

— Scott Dikkers

#humor #infidelity #love #relationships #romance