#ships

When a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family and still become a gangster, Joe's answer was two-pronged: (a) he wasn't a gangster, he was an outlaw; (b) he came from a magnificent house not a magnificent home. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#gangsters #family

If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced me through years ago. ↗

— Erica Goros

#hate #love #relationships #the-daisy-chain #love

It won't be whiskey, won't be meth It'll be your name on my last breath If divorce or death ever do us part The coroner will call it a broken heart ↗

— The Band Perry

#music-lyrics #relationships #death

Don't be too busy climbing the ladder of success and forget your most cherished relationships (friends, family, spouse, etc). EnjoyLife! ↗

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

#relationships #business

When I felt her yield and kiss me back, and realized I had a fighting chance to make this all work out somehow, I had hope. That was far deadlier than any knife or mace. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#relationships #romance #star-crossed #love

this isn't so much romance as it is opportunity [victor mancini] ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#human-relationships #humor #life #love #life

Girls spilled drinks down their dresses and flicked their hair. Wishing anyone, maybe even you, would notice them... You were someone to me. ↗

— Kate Chisman

#chance #girls #heartbreak #love #lovers

I tell myself relationships are hard work. No one is perfect. There's no such thing as happily ever after. ↗

— Laura Nowlin

#finny #happily-ever-after #love #relationships #love

Men come and go but bills are forever. ↗

— Michael Baisden

#men

If I'm among men who don't agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself. A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively. Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it's absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#irvin-yalom #spinoza #true-self #change