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Joe Spork opens the door. The man departs. Joe turns to Polly to say something about how they’re obviously not going to Portsmouth, and finds an oyster knife balanced on his cheek, just under his eye. “Can we be very clear,” Polly Cradle murmurs, “that I am not your booby sidekick or your Bond girl? That I am an independent supervillain in my own right?” Joe swallows. “Yes, we can,” he says carefully. “There will therefore be no more ‘Say hello, Polly’?” “There will not. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#relationships #supervillains #relationship

I want my relationship with my future boyfriend to be built on trust, not in alcohol , not in the appearance , and in jealous eyes ↗

— zwaantje nacion

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Unfortunately, in a hierarchical structure, power relationships tend to determine the content; there is always the danger that a "rank-based" logic will prevail. Managers, intent on advancement, tend to supply the information they know their superiors want to hear, rather than the information they ought to hear. Large organizations tend, therefore, to become systematically stupid. ↗

— John Médaille

#politics #relationship

[M]an is not an island, he is more like a spaghetti junction. ↗

— Elizabeth Cooke

#law #property-law #relationships #relationship

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship... ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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Relationships should be like glass .... No matter who sees from what angel .... It should be transparent ↗

— Adil Adam Memon

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Some people don’t realize what they have until it’s gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back. ↗

— Stephan Labossiere

#ex #exes #relationships #relationship

Selingkuh: meninggalkan yang tak sempurna untuk yang lebih tak sempurna. ↗

— Christian Simamora

#relationship-advice #romance #romance-novels #sad-but-true #selingkuh

Call me a bad private eye, but I came to the conclusion that nobody is happy with what they’ve got. You have a healthy relationship, then, you look for a spicy one. You have an unhealthy relationship, your struggle is to find a peaceful one. ↗

— Merce Cardus

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Hideo," said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have them all present in their mind at once, "you haven't found any kind of relationship? ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#mothers #women #relationship