#relations

When I opened my case in the hotel, he gestured excitedly at my snakeskin sandals, turquoise suede wedges and silver-speckled jellies. “But you’ve loads of shoes,” he bellowed joyfully. I shook my head sadly. Men just don’t get it, do they? They’re definitely missing the shoe chromosome. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#men #relationships #shopping #family

They say that time is relative. I think the way it's treating me it's a distant one, maybe a bad uncle, and not welcome in my house this Christmas!! ↗

— Neil Leckman

#humor #family

The debt we owe our parents can never be squared, and jolly good too, because doing so would threaten to nullify all relationship, all emotional commerce between the two generations. Being in debt, just like being in credit, means an active interest applies between the two parties and, once the debt is taken care of, the interest is bound to wane. ↗

— Robert Rowland Smith

#family-relationships #parenthood #family

You scare me, Sebastian. You're so good looking, and so clever, and so damn charming. Hell, you're even sporting a monster dick - not that I go for that sort of thing, but a lot of women do. Sebastian, if someone had to design a death trap for stupid women, you'd be it. ↗

— Remittance Girl

#beauty

If someone treats you like SHIT, just remember that there is something WRONG with THEM, not YOU. Normal people dont go around destroying other Human Beings! ↗

— Unknown

#encouragement #happiness #life #positive #positive-women

We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative. Imaginative people fidget with ideas, including the idea of a relationship. If they're wordsmiths like us, they fidget a lot in words. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#relationships #imagination

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small. ↗

— James Laughlin

#because #book #cases #close #close relationship

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#between #both #engineering #large #now

It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

#current #daughter #father #friend #her

Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different. ↗

— Mae West

#relationships #humor