#relatio

But Harry knew now that love was a soldier. It can invade the human heart. Build canopies through jungles. Scale castle walls. Cross moats. Love can probably walk on water. ↗

— Cathie Pelletier

#relationships #wisdom #love

Not invade her privacy! Just sit back and give up on her, as if she were a missing pet or mitten, or dropped penny. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#love

He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#heartbreak #love #physics #relationships #love

But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it was an effect of the distance between them becoming less and less tolerable with each passing day, since as we grow old - for every now and then one must, yes, look reality in the eye and call things by their proper names - we feel more keenly the need to have the person we love beside us. ↗

— Andrea Camilleri

#love #reality-check #love

[...] when you know, you know. And you don't fight it. You don;t deny the inevitable. You free fall because you know there's someone there to catch you on the other side. ↗

— S.L. Jennings

#falling-in-love #fear-of-falling #life #love #relationships

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#love

I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask. "Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#relationships #marriage

Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position". ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#levin #ljewin #love #marriage #pride