#ruth

First, you're sorry for invading my privacy for years, years before I even knew you existed. Second, you're sorry for kidnapping me, isolating, controlling me, and manipulating me. Third, you're sorry for lying to me, pretending you cared and oh yearh, marrying me. Fourth, listen carefully Tony, this is the big one...you're sorry for framing me for attempted murder, resulting in incarceration in a federal penitentiary." "I am deeply sorry for one and four. I did provide you with an alternative destination for number four. I am not proud of two, but three would never have happened without it. I am not, and never will be sorry for three. And, for the record, I never lied about or pretended to love you. I didn't realize it at first, but I have loved you since before you knew my name. And, you forgot our divorce. I am sincerely sorry for that also. ↗

— Aleatha Romig

#anthony-rawlings #anton-rawls #claire-nichols #sorry #truth

...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong. ↗

— Pearl Cleage

#man #strong #truth #weak #woman

To hate man and love god seems to be the sum of all creeds. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#religion #truth #love

You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient. ↗

— Harriet Evans

#timing #truth #love

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#truth #love

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#living #patience #questioning #truth #love

Do you want this to be a love story? ↗

— Jenny Downham

#sad #tom #truth #love

love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#truth #love

Everyone is screwed up, the ones who try to say they aren’t, they’re the ones who are the worst off. ↗

— Holly Hood

#life #love #truthful #life

A mother's heart is a vast and glorious thing. My mother's heart was expansive, having been enlarged by suffering and years of clinging to Jesus while being misunderstood, dismissed, and judged by those she loved most. Me included. It had cost her to love, had cost her much to mother. It always does. But she would tell you that it's worth it, that there is no other way. ↗

— Stasi Eldredge

#love #truth #love