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It was his fault, all of it, and yet her hatred for him was the worst kind of love, a tortured longing, a misguided wish that made her heart hammer in her chest. She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two different puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#misunderstanding #puzzles #quarrel #relationship #love

Love is a feeling that is imposed on you. You cannot be lazy; it is up to you to make things work and make the best of it. ↗

— Kyra Gregory

#desire #feelings #love #relationships #sorrow

A righteous wife is a respectful wife. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#marriage #piety #religious #respect #righteous

Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#love #relationships #inspirational

And now here was Arabella, making him feel worse. Maybe that was what she always did; maybe she always made him feel worse, and he'd never really noticed before. Maybe what seemed like the ordinary rough-and-tumble of marriage, combined with hard work and London, was something simpler: the fact that added to any equation, Arabella made it worse. ↗

— John Lanchester

#relationships #support #marriage

The regrets about all she had let go flooded her. Where had all that enterprise gone? All that energy? Why had she never traveled? Or had more sex when she could? She had bleached and annihilated every waking moment of the last twenty years. Anything, rather than feel. ↗

— Rachel Joyce

#marriage #regret #relationships #marriage

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

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I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask. "Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson. ↗

— E.M. Forster

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