#relationships

I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die. ↗

— Eloisa James

#love #relationships #beauty

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#also #always #easier #encounters #friendships

You can have a pet zebra and put that zebra into a small cage every day and tell the zebra that you love it, but no matter how you and the zebra love each other, the fact remains, that the zebra should be let out of that cage and should belong to someone who can treat it better, the way it should be treated, someone who can make it happy. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#abusive-relationships #relationship-quotes #relationships #wisdom-quotes #wrong-relationships

This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful. ↗

— Sarah Ruhl

#beauty #loneliness #love #plays #relationships

My dad was born poor, made a fortune during his life, and then died suddenly—murdered by his only son, leaving his vast estate to a daughter I didn’t know he had.
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— Jarod Kintz

#daughter #family #father #inherit #inheritance

You mustn't stand about. Come home with me to dinner.’ ‘No.’ More shakes his head. ‘I would rather be blown around on the river and go home hungry. If I could trust you only to put food in my mouth – but you will put words into it. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#humor #family

Chairs have legs. Four of them, like my father. Meow.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cats #chairs #dad #family #father

Grandpa had a good life, up until the day we slaughtered him and ate him. Honestly, he raised chickens, so he should have seen it coming.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #food #funny #grandpa #humor

One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being... ↗

— Mary Shelley

#life #loneliness #love #relationships #romance

People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#failure-relationship #marriage #marriage-life #marriage-preparation #relationships-advice