#relationships

Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you ↗

— Erykah Badu

#love #relationships #friendship

Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#fail #friendship #love #relationships #friendship

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. ↗

— Rainbow Rowell

#high-school #love #relationships #sweet #teenage-love

Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#friendship

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#relationships #friendship

One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds? ↗

— May Sarton

#love #pain #peril #relationships #friendship

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#friendship #relationships #religious #friendship

Sleeping with a man half your age can be exhausting, but if it's too much for him you can always find a younger man. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#older-women #age

I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#death #drown #freeze #freezing #funny

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