QUOTES ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS

Our relationship became a Jenga tower, and one by one we began pulling out the pieces, the structure increasingly fragile. We argued furiously and relentlessly about everything, shouting insults that left us both hoarse the next morning. When, on the first Monday of April, I handed in my notice at work, the tower tumbled, blocks spilling everywhere. Two days later, Lena packed her bags and left the flat for good.

I still care, I still feel everything deeply. I still love the same. But now, I have learned to stay quiet. Because not every emotion needs to be expressed, specially when the one you show it to, doesn't care at all.

I was always there when they needed me. I left my work, my time, even my people, just to make sure they were ok, but when I needed them…They said I expect too much. They said I was needy and called me a burden. That’s when I realized that being available for others makes you “good,” but expecting others to be there for you makes you “too much.

You are Popovic, right?’
Steve jumped to his feet and saluted. ‘Stefan Popovic, Flight Lieutenant RAF, sir.’
He was facing a man in the uniform of a colonel in the British Army. His first impression was that this was a man better suited to civilian dress than military uniform. He was in his middle years, with a round face, a high forehead and thick-rimmed glasses. They had not spoken before, but he knew who he was. Colonel Bailey had been dropped by parachute to the headquarters of General Draza Mihailovic on Christmas Day, as a representative of the British government. ‘But in spite of the name, you are not a Yugoslav, I’m told,’ the colonel continued.
‘No, sir. I’m an American. My grandparents emigrated to Alaska from Macedonia before the last war.