#relations

I always wake up early in a strange bed. I looked at Bertrand, I wonder about him. There was a sort of easy grace in whatever he did, He didn't talk much. I watched this boy sleeping beside me. God, was he tall, and handsome. I was surprised, during the night, when he's told me he was only nineteen. I never would have imagined this kind of cool confidence could come so early to a person. But nineteen, after all, wasn't so far off. I remembered how stupid I was in my relations with other people then. ↗

— Michèle Bernstein

#confidence #nineteen #relationships #sex #teenager

She’d treasured every minute, but being with him was beginning to inspire more conflict within her than serenity. ↗

— Nicki Elson

#love #inspirational

I´m just not sending out the right vibe lately. Perhaps the fact that I wear stained sweatpants and free T-shirts is holding me back. I just can´t seem to get back into the intelligent-slut-for-hire outfits that lure men; even shoes with laces evade me. Plus my hair is Fran Lebowitz-esque. I think my eyes are getting closer together. I don´t know. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#jealousy

That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love. ↗

— Anita Shreve

#love #relationships #jealousy

He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice. ↗

— Takayuki Yamaguchi

#antipathy #enemies #envy #heart #human-nature

Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care. ↗

— Criss Jami

#achievement #attraction #care #conquer #dignity

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#empowerment #life #relationships #subtlety #life

How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market" put a price on things - food, clothes, electricity, running water - when it doesn't take into account the REAL cost of production? ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#cities #colonialism #exploitation #first-world #human-rights

It was like a tree had sprung up between them, a tree that was just too thick to throw their arms around. ↗

— Wiley Cash

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