#ships

There is always risk in relationships, but bottom line? The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise. ↗

— Aidan Chambers

#relationships #love

The loneliest days are the ones where you keep company with someone you love who can’t hear you. ↗

— Holly Robinson

#longing #relationships-love #love

Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don’t understand that the culture really isn’t offering us all of these options – there still are very strong pressures to conform. We have to step outside the culture to be able to make choices that will really give us what we want. But we lack the psychic mechanisms to do this, to really choose. ↗

— Dalma Heyn

#love #power #relationships #social-sciences #love

Even though I always came back, he said he was always watching me leave. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#leave #leaving #long-distance-love #love #relationships

The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole men. Just as we complete them, of course; it’s not a one-way thing. Leola and I, when romance was stripped away, were too much alike; our strengths and weaknesses were too nearly the same. Together we would have doubled our gains and our losses, but that isn’t what love is. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#cruelty #hateful-people #love #relationships #unrequited-love

This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in a ritual of affection, briefly settled in the eternal necessities of warmth, comfort, safety, crossing limbs to draw nearer - a simple daily consolation, almost too obvious, easy to forget by daylight. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union ↗

— Rollo May

#relationships #union #love

She didn't want me; she wanted all of me. I didn't mind saying it. My girlfriend scared the crap out of me. ↗

— T.J. Forrester

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