#ship

If you think you can stand looking and not touching for eight months, you're welcome to try." "Try' being the operative word," he said, sighing. "No, I can't. And I don't want to try. ↗

— Leah Raeder

#love #relationship #taboo #love

Don't let the belief that nobody will love you, keep you in a relationship where you aren't getting the love you need. ↗

— Stephan Labossiere

#love #relationships #settling #love

I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or serious or what. This bothered me. Or intrigued me. Or both. ↗

— Sarah Dessen Along for the Ride

#difficuly #feelings #infatuation #intrigue #joke

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean? ↗

— Graeme Simsion

#love #relationships #the-rosie-project #love

But Harry knew now that love was a soldier. It can invade the human heart. Build canopies through jungles. Scale castle walls. Cross moats. Love can probably walk on water. ↗

— Cathie Pelletier

#relationships #wisdom #love

Not invade her privacy! Just sit back and give up on her, as if she were a missing pet or mitten, or dropped penny. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#love

He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#heartbreak #love #physics #relationships #love

But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it was an effect of the distance between them becoming less and less tolerable with each passing day, since as we grow old - for every now and then one must, yes, look reality in the eye and call things by their proper names - we feel more keenly the need to have the person we love beside us. ↗

— Andrea Camilleri

#love #reality-check #love

[...] when you know, you know. And you don't fight it. You don;t deny the inevitable. You free fall because you know there's someone there to catch you on the other side. ↗

— S.L. Jennings

#falling-in-love #fear-of-falling #life #love #relationships

You don't have to be afraid of falling. Just close your eyes, let go, and know that I'll always be here with arms outstretched, ready to catch you. ↗

— S.L. Jennings

#couples #falling-in-love #love #relationships #sl-jennings