#ships

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#love #relationships #love

Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#haymitch #katniss #love #peeta #quote

Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships ↗

— Cecily von Ziegesar

#girl #gossip-girl #love #relationships #love

Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions. ↗

— Criss Jami

#closer #compensation #filling-the-void #god #horrific

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home. ↗

— Aleksandar Hemon

#love #relationships #love

It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun. ↗

— Robin Black

#short-story #love

It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#relationships #self-love #love

I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#breakups #emotions #fear #heartache #loss

Even if toxic people are right about what is "good," they are wrong if the approach is not healthy. ↗

— John Lewis Lund

#healthy #relationships #right #toxic #wrong

She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#relationships #love