#ship

You're absolved," I tell him. He brings his eyes back up to mine. There's no fucking way he knows what that word means. That's a word I dream someone will say to me. So I put it in his language. "You're free. ↗

— Hannah Moskowitz

#friendship-and-love #letting-go #loss #dreams

Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#dating #finding-love #living-life-to-the-fullest #living-your-best-life #love

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#goodness #intelligence #kindness #scholarship #education

Then, what's the matter?' I wonder, in fact, how many times I have said that or something equal to it to a woman passing palely through my life. What're you thinking? What's made you so quiet? You seem suddenly different. What's the matter? Love me is what this means, of course. Or at least, second best: surrender. Or at the very least, take some time regaling me with why you won't, and maybe by the end you will. ↗

— Richard Ford

#men #relationships #surrender #women #equality

Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet it’s terrifying to people and they think you’re a monster. ↗

— Sara Quin

#equality #gay-marriage #lgbt #love #relationships

When you begin with the premise "I treat everyone equally," you have already blinkered yourself from seeing where you don't, or can't, or shouldn't. There is no way to treat two people equally, because they are each unique, with respective strengths and weaknesses. ↗

— Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#polyamory #relationships #equality

He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#relationships #education

For me, marriage should be about partnership. How can you love someone you have to take care of like a child all the time? A wife is supposed to be a partner, and yes partners help each other when they need it, but they are supposed to be together because they want to in my book, not because one needs the other. ↗

— Lynsay Sands

#love #marriage #partnership #equality

And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#mystery

Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy. ↗

— Anna Gavalda

#love #relationships #love