#ship

To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a language which sounds like your own but is really totally foreign, knowable only to them. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#love #relationships #love

That's how it was on Irving Circle and how I was raised: You made the best out of what was within reach, which meant friendships engineered by parents and by the happenstance of housing. I stayed with it because we both had queenly older sisters who rarely condescended to play with us, because Shelley was adopted and I was not, because Shelley had Clue and Life, and I did not ↗

— Elinor Lipman

#making-do #friendship

Good Things Never Stay .. This what People Say.. So,When I met you I knew That Oneday , You Will just Go Away ! STILL...I'll pray & pray That we walk The Same WAY ( : ↗

— mohammed abdel-mohsen

#friendship

Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friendship #letting-go #loving-yourself #moving-on #negative-people

[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#family

He reached out and intertwined our hands. Gently urging me forward he whispered, “Have I lost you love? ↗

— Erin Jamison

#relationships #risk #trust #love

There was a time Jeff and Helen loved each other and touched each other's hands and ate breakfast in cafes together and secretly fucked in public, the way people in like do. Then came a time they made each other crazy and beat their hands on steering wheels and tore up love letters and photographs and said goodbye. ↗

— Amy Guth

#love

In the harsh veracity of the real world, he was rich, successful, and one of the most desired bachelors in New York—and I was, well, me. A world I hoped wouldn’t tear us apart by pointing out just how different our lives were. “You’re probably eager to get home,” Jett whispered in my ear so the flight attendant serving coffee wouldn’t hear us, “but will you stay with me one more night? I’m not quite ready to let this go. ↗

— J.C. Reed

#love #relationship #romantic #home

<> It's nice of you to say I'm your best friend. <> You are my best friend, dummy. <> Really? You are my best friend. But I always assumed that somebody else was your best friend, and I was totally okay with that. You don't have to say that I'm your best friend just to make me feel good. <> You're so lame. <> That's why I figured somebody else was your best friend. ↗

— Rainbow Rowell

#love #friendship

Our friends have a way of reminding us of how fabulous we are when the rest of the world has forgotten. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friendship #positive-thinking #the-single-woman #true-friends #friendship