#ships

Places are supposed to look smaller when you go back to them, but my road just looked schizoid. A couple of the houses had had nifty little makeovers involving double glazing and amusing faux-antique pastel paint; most of them hadn't. Number 16 looked like it was on its last legs: the roof was in tatters, there was a pile of bricks and a dead wheelbarrow by the front steps, and at some point in the last twenty years someone had set the door on fire. In Number 8, a window on the first floor was lit up, gold and cozy and dangerous as hell. ↗

— Tana French

#home #reminiscing #faith

Be the man she can depend on, not the man that constantly lets her down. ↗

— Stephan Labossiere

#dependence #love #marriage #relationship-advice #relationships

Ignoring your intuition telling you this person is not for you will likely lead to more time wasted and more disappointments along the way. ↗

— Stephan Labossiere

#dating #intuition #relationships #dating

Honor your relationships by developing listening skills. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#marriage #parenting #relationships #art

Always remember when it comes to family arguments and disputes. "Blood is thicker than anger. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#arguements #family #life #love #relationships

You can never really know someone completely. That's why it's the most terrifying thing in the world, really - taking someone on faith, hoping they'll take you on faith too. It's such a pre-carious balance, it's a wonder we do it at all. ↗

— Libba Bray

#life #relationships #society #beauty

People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future. ↗

— Robyn Donald

#love #past #relationships #age

For the first time in history, middle-class women do not need men in the traditional ways - for safety, for money, for a life. So they’re demanding instead what they always wanted but couldn’t ask for: emotional connection, presence, intimacy. Sex with enough foreplay, enough seduction, enough closeness to please them. Men are baffled not only because the needs they are being asked to fill differ so from what their fathers and grandfathers understood to be their jobs but also because full-fledged intimacy requires strengths and skills they’ve never learned. Moreover… they’re strengths and skills that were once left solely to women: Men didn’t have to develop them. This maturational mismatch may be contributing to distrust among lovers of all ages. ↗

— Dalma Heyn

#ebook #marriage #relationships #strength #women

In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for. ↗

— Patricia Nell Warren

#love #lovemaking #old-age #sex #age

We made love like green is blue. That’s because we were only half into it, though for the record I was the blue and she was the disinterested yellow.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#color #colors #disinterest #funny #green