#relationships

Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? - Dan Landry ↗

— Barbara Falkenrath

#family-relationships #fiction #family

Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison. "Yes, we're all alike," I said. "We cover for you, we lie for you, we take the heat for you. We clean up your messes and mollify our parents for you. We never fail to come across with undying adoration, whether or not you deserve it, and we can't take our lives as seriously as yours. We snuffle up the crumbs from your table on the rare occasions you notice we're alive. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#family-relationships #sibling-relationships #siblings #sisters #family

Grow up, Bailey." "That is precisely what I'm doing," Bailey says. "I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It's not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I'm leaving. Do me a favor and marry someone who will take decent care of the sheep. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#life #marriage #marriage-advice #maturity #sibling-relationships

I am three forks away from eating all your food with two homeless guys. It’s too bad I only have a suitcase full of spoons and a bucket of soy sauce.
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— Jarod Kintz

#food #funny #homeless #humor #nonsense

Love is hard. It's forgiving your best friend when you want to shove her away. ↗

— Liz Reinhardt

#love #perfectly-unmatched #relationships #youngblood #forgiveness

Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248) ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#freedom #love #relationships #freedom

If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#forgiveness #freedom #generosity #relationships #spirituality

I'd rather have rabies than be in love." "Why?" "Because at least you can get over rabies with some shots. ↗

— Shelly Laurenston

#humor-relationships #funny

That fist he was raising at me would wham into the cupboard door, hurting only himself. I saw it all happening, then it really did happen. But I didn't understand the whore thing. Why was he confusing the drinking with the other? Then I got it. Obvious. It was all mixed up for him, all the same thing: the drinking, the other, anything that could make a woman free. ↗

— David Gates

#relationships #whores #women #freedom

The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#freedom #inner-man-and-woman #joy #life #love