#sap

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love. ↗

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#relationships #young-love #love

You fall in love, it's intoxicating, an for a little while you feel like you've actually become one with the other person. Merged souls, and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again. Only it doesn't last and soon you realize you can only get so close and you end up brutally disappointed, more alone than ever, because the illusion-the hope you'd held on to all those years-has been shattered. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#loneliness #love #love

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love. ↗

— Philip Yancey

#love #love

Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy. ↗

— Andy Stern

#because #both #disappearing #economy #global

We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams. ↗

— Kate Chisman

#disappointment #divorce #envy #heartache #heartbreak

Disappear, she says. I love that word. ↗

— Will Christopher Baer

#words #love

Oh Mom, it turns out my knight in shining armor was just some liar in tinfoil. ↗

— Taryn Plendl

#love-hurts #sadness #love

Love is a place for your heart to get broken. ↗