#ria

Bad relationships are not lucrative at all. There is far more at stake in good relationships. Good relationships keep divorces protracted, psychologists employed, and children in jail where they belong. Without them society would collapse! ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #marriage #relationships #society #therapy

Woolsey bites on occasion ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #possibly-inappropriate #funny

There are memories that time can't erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend, Magnus Bane, if you don't believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable. Only bearable. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #magnus-bane

You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#claire-danvers #eve-rosser #michael-glass #mobile #morganville-vampires

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#love #men #patriarchy #relationships #love

I was beginning to understand something I couldn't articulate. It was a jazzy feeling in my chest, a fluttering, a kind of buzzing in my brain. Warmth. Life. The circulation of blood. Sanguinity. I don't know. I understood the enormous risk of telling the truth, how the telling could result in every level of hell reigning down on you, your skin scorched to the bone and then bone to ash and then nothing but a lingering odour of shame and decomposition, but now I was also beginning to understand the new and alien feeling of taking the risk and having the person on the other end of the telling, the listener, say: Bad shit at home? You guys are running away? Yeah, I said. I understand, said, Noehmi. ↗

— Miriam Toews

#feeling #irma-voth #life #literature #miriam-toews

Ada dunia di sekelilingmu. Ada aku di sampingmu. Namun, kamu mendamba rasa sendiri itu. ↗

— Dee

#dee #diam #filkop #sendirian #cinta

Sitting beside Abe was Adrian Ivashkov--my more-or-less boyfriend. Adrian was a royal Moroi--and another spirit user like Lissa. He'd been crazy about me (and often just crazy) ever since we first met ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway #adrian-ivashkov

In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-heeled homes up until at least the time of the First World War. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#parenthood #victorian-era #home

Couldn't Lissa have healed that black eye away?" "Its a badge of honor. Makes me seem manly. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway #rose-hathaway