#ship

I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't want to fight her anymore. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go home. So I blew up her planet. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#relationships #home

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university. ↗

— Ellen Wilkinson

#i #left #my own #own #paid

I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#relationships #love

I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#had #i #men #relationships #think

We became Morris and Morecambe. This partnership did not last long, however. ↗

— Ernie Wise

#did #however #last #long #morris

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#carried #concerning #conscience #duty #even

People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future. ↗

— Robyn Donald

#love #past #relationships #age

I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#death #friendship #humanity #procrastination #weaknesses

How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#krapp #life #love #play #relationship

For the first time in history, middle-class women do not need men in the traditional ways - for safety, for money, for a life. So they’re demanding instead what they always wanted but couldn’t ask for: emotional connection, presence, intimacy. Sex with enough foreplay, enough seduction, enough closeness to please them. Men are baffled not only because the needs they are being asked to fill differ so from what their fathers and grandfathers understood to be their jobs but also because full-fledged intimacy requires strengths and skills they’ve never learned. Moreover… they’re strengths and skills that were once left solely to women: Men didn’t have to develop them. This maturational mismatch may be contributing to distrust among lovers of all ages. ↗

— Dalma Heyn

#ebook #marriage #relationships #strength #women