#relatio

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

— Ray Lamontagne

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

Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest. ↗

— Erin McCarthy

#faith #relationships #faith

I’m very close to my dad. He’s about six inches away right now and snoring in my ears. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#family #funny #humor #relationships #family

That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me. And nothing else mattered-- not my family or your family or anyone else in the world. It was just us. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#relationships #the-best-of-me #family

Life was good. Everything was going right. It was almost scaring him because usually when things were going this well it was the calm before the storm hit. ↗

— Michelle Sutton

#marriage #family

...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#emotions #families #relationships #work #workplace

Sarene finally released him, wiping her eyes, disappointed in herself for crying again. Kiin simply placed a large hand on her shoulder and led her into the dining room, where the rest of the family sat around the table, even Adien. Lukel had been talking animatedly, but he cut off as he saw Sarene. "Speak the name of the lion," he said, quoting a Jindoeese proverb, "and he will come to feast. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#family

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#family

I used to live with someone of the opposite sex. It’s called a sister, and I don’t have one.
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— Jarod Kintz

#relationships #sister #women #family

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#family #relationships #separation #family