#ships

I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that break, the ones that fail you, the ones that give way and send you careening toward the foot of the bleak and jagged canyon. It's the tough, gnarled, unadorned ties that really do bind, that never let you fall all the way down into darkness. ↗

— Sharon Shinn

#family-relationships #friends #inspirational #family

There are millions of people out there who live this way, and their hearts are breaking just like mine. It’s okay to say, “My kid is a drug addict or alcoholic, and I still love them and I’m still proud of them.” Hold your head up and have a cappuccino. Take a trip. Hang your Christmas lights and hide colored eggs. Cry, laugh, then take a nap. And when we all get to the end of the road, I’m going to write a story that’s so happy it’s going to make your liver explode. It’s going to be a great day. ↗

— Dina Kucera

#drug-addiction #drugs #family-relationships #family

Ladies if A Man is More Invested and Concerned About Your Assets....He Is A Liability ↗

— Mo Stegall

#from-the-hands-of-delilah-book #love-hurts #mo-stegall #family

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles. ↗

— John Gray

#family-relationships #life #relationships #family

It is hundreds of tiny threads of memories, which sew people together through the years. Despite, their mental separation they stay woven into that tapestry out of habit, emotion, obsession or fear. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#dysfunctional-families #family #marriage #relationships #family

Family… that was my older sister Tiffany as well. My emotional spectrum for her covered everything from “my dearest sister, foundation of my heart and soul” up to “you fucking bitch, go and get run over by a train, please”. We had quite a normal sibling relationship, I assume. ↗

— Hasimir Fenrig

#family

It may be that psychologists are off-base in their preoccupation with children’s need to feel that their father or some other parent loves them. It also seems valid to consider the child’s desire to feel that a parent actually likes them, as love itself is so automatic and preprogrammed in a parent that it isn’t a very good test of whatever it is that the typical child feels so anxious to pass the test of ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#family

But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty. ↗

— Margaret George

#humor #marriage #family

Der Mann ist das Haupt der Familie – und die Frau ist der Hals, auf dem es sich dreht. ↗

— E. L. Greiff

#relationships #woman #family

As long as your name is NOT Jesus,I CAN live without you ↗

— Roezeay Dube

#love #moving-on #relationships #romance #friendship