#relations

Judging Natalie as my mother had judged me was, I felt like telling her son, just my ass-backward way of showing love. I'd spent my life trying to translate that language, and now I realized I had come to speak it fluently. When was it that you realized the thread woven through your DNA carried the relationship deformities of your blood relatives as much as it did their diabetes and bone density? ↗

— Alice Sebold

#relationships #relatives #family

I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy. ↗

— Armand Assante

#brought #daddy #daughters #drag #home

We all think when we’re young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary.” I smiled and she chuckled. “But when we find ourselves in these adult bodies,” she said. “When we wise up a little, or get slapped in the face by life, we realize we just want all things to be equal.” She put the heels of her hands together near her heart like the Yoga prayer position. “And we want to understand them better. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #meg-kavanagh #relationships

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#complicated #how #i #know #me

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. ↗

— Richard Bach

#about #admire #close #feels #i

I'm terrified of getting involved with someone who disappoints me or leaves me empty and alone. I'm terrified of rejection, so I set my expectations so high that they can never be met, and I dig around with a magnifying glass looking for flaws in very person I date. There's always a flaw to exploit, and I'll find it so I never have to get too close. ↗

— Rachel Machacek

#fear #relationships #dating

Do not sabotage your new relationship with your last relationship’s poison. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #motivational #poison #relationship #sabotage

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#how #i #make #parents #relationship

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. ↗

— Joan Baez

#easiest #hardest #kind #me #people

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#altered #based #basis #deeply #discoveries