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Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#men #relationships #imagination

There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#relationships #love

The kiss intimately relates to the most primitive kind of human contact, which can satisfy all of our needs, like: feeding, enjoying pleasure, tasting, wanting, rejecting, everything we associate with love. ↗

— Mabel Iam

#love #mabel-iam #pleasure #relationships #love

All the bruised lives, searching hearts...Everyone wants a love story but few will risk what it takes to live one. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#love-story #relationships #love

She has no regrets; she knows now he could never have made her happy, even though he has, apparently, joined AA, is doing better. But sobriety is his journey, not hers; he needs to do it for himself, alone. Still, she misses him hugely, doesn't feel ready for another relationship yet. But as time passes, she hopes that she might be, eventually, with someone new, easier, kinder. ↗

— Sarah Rayner

#moving-on #relationships #time #love

Sing me a love song in a slow, southern drawl to the tune of sunny days... ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#cute #kisses #love #quotes #relationships

People don't tell others when they lose interest, just like they don't tell others when they love them. And then they wonder why they are so unhappy. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#relationships #love

I know some people find the idea of soul mates romantic, or comforting, but to me believing in soul mates means absolving yourself of any responsibility for your own happiness. If a relationship doesn't work out--whoops! It wasn't meant to be. Fuck meant to be. ↗

— Anna Jarzab

#relationships #love

What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspaper and realize that no one loves you, and no one burns for you. ↗

— Charles Baxter

#relationships #settling #solitude #love

The last thing she'd wanted was anything as complicated as a relationship, for it felt as though there we're though complication in her life already. ↗

— Nicholas. Sparks

#love #relationship #relationships #life