#relations

Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against me I simply became disgusted and withdrew. Lydia was different. She reacted. She was the Head Cheerleader at the Game of Violence. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#relationships #love

Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#love #relationships #love

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#deep #father #full #had #i

Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together. ↗

— Graham Greene

#beauty

So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was caused by the forbidden fruit getting stuck in the throat of Adam in the Garden of Eden. There is a problem with this theory because some Hebrew scholars believe that the forbidden fruit was the pomegranate. The Koran claims that the forbidden fruit was a banana. So take your pick---Adam's apple, Adam's pomegranate, Adam's banana. Eve clearly chewed before swallowing. ↗

— Mark Leyner

#funny #humorous #irony #relationships #funny

I had a dream about you last night… it was raining and you were fishing for fire to set a sandcastle a flame. ↗

— Nicole McKay

#dreams #funny #humor #life #relationships

I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might say in a retirement home.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#age #cannibal #cannibalism #death #food

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #contentment #enjoyment #happiness #joy

Ignoring your intuition telling you this person is not for you will likely lead to more time wasted and more disappointments along the way. ↗

— Stephan Labossiere

#dating #intuition #relationships #dating

Honor your relationships by developing listening skills. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#marriage #parenting #relationships #art