QUOTES ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
Quotes about relationships capture the complexity of connection, love, and understanding between people. They reflect both the beauty and the challenges that come with sharing our lives with others. The following collection offers insights that may resonate, comfort, or inspire reflection on the bonds we form. Select Another Topic
One of the first examples of forensic science solving a murder appears in a book called The Washing Away of Wrongs, published in 1247 by Song Ci, a Chinese coroner and detective....Metallic green flies descend in a chaotic swarm and then, as if collectively alerted, land on one sickle, crawling all over it as the other sickles lie undisturbed. The magistrate knew traces of blood and human tissue attract blowflies....But forensic science advancements are really just about finding the latest way to draw a blowfly to a bloody sickle. The goal is the same as it was in thirteenth-century rural China: cellular certainty establishing guilt.
- Michelle McNamara
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
People often talk about crawling into the rooms of recovery on their knees, but when I turned to twelve-step for the second time, I felt more like I was walking in there with my hands up—like a career criminal turning herself in, ready at last to give up the game.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
There is a prayer that we recite in those rooms that I love very much. It simply says, “Dear God—thank you for all that has been given, for all that has been taken away, and for all that remains.”
Like many gratefully recovering addicts, I stand in amazement at all that remains—astonished that I was allowed to keep anything, after all my many years of madness and acting out. By all rights, I should have lost absolutely everything in the course of my various and sundry maelstroms and upheavals. Many people with minds as disordered as mine have indeed lost everything.
Like many gratefully recovering addicts, I stand in amazement at all that remains—astonished that I was allowed to keep anything, after all my many years of madness and acting out. By all rights, I should have lost absolutely everything in the course of my various and sundry maelstroms and upheavals. Many people with minds as disordered as mine have indeed lost everything.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
The only Terrans around on Meele were the piratical mine-raiders, hiding behind their Scientific Investigation Commission accreditation, and tourists who were hot on far-flung destinations. Terrans didn't have the best reputation over there, thanks to their tendancy to dig everything and anything up.
- Izumi Suzuki
Terminal Boredom: Stories
My codependency gives me outlandish ideas about how responsible I am for others, and my anxiety distorts my perception of reality—convincing me that I can control people and keep them safe, if only I try hard enough. But I cannot control anyone.
Nor can I keep people safe from their own choices.
Adults get to do whatever they decide to do—even to the point of their own self-destruction or death. And as my sponsor always reminds me when I am about to overstep into someone else’s territory: “God didn’t bring anyone into your life for you to control them.”
Because I can’t control them. I have enough trouble controlling myself.
Nor can I keep people safe from their own choices.
Adults get to do whatever they decide to do—even to the point of their own self-destruction or death. And as my sponsor always reminds me when I am about to overstep into someone else’s territory: “God didn’t bring anyone into your life for you to control them.”
Because I can’t control them. I have enough trouble controlling myself.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
When you are in the grip of addiction, or when you are severely impacted by someone else’s addiction, eventually nothing works—not even the things that don’t seem obviously related to the addictive substance or behavior. Losing the lease to our apartment and getting my bank account hacked had nothing to do with the fact that Rayya was drugged out of her mind, or that I was lost in a dense fog of codependency—but these are also the kinds of things that happen when your life is falling apart: suddenly it’s raining hammers. Everything unravels. You sprain your ankle, your car breaks down, your dog dies. You can’t handle anything. And that’s when the madness really sets in, because it seems like the world itself is a machine of pain that has turned its full force against you.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
It is my way—it has always been my way—to become captivated by other people’s charisma and madness and wildness and beauty. To disappear into their stories and become hypnotized by their existence. To become lost in a trance of themness and to forget who I am, what I am, and where I stand.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Forgiving someone who fooled you is one of the hardest things. Especially when it’s someone you truly respected. You keep fighting between anger and empathy between hurting them back and understanding that we all make mistakes. But forgiveness isn’t about them. It’s about freeing yourself. It’s a long, emotional loop where some days you will hate them and some days you will understand them.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Some truths hit slow. Some goodbyes hurt longer. Some wounds never fully heal. Some conversations stay unfinished. Some thoughts stay thoughts. Some relationships hurt more than they heal… and we wait for closure that never comes. But this is life in its purest form, messy, unpredictable, and brutally honest. And this is how life teaches us that we don’t get to control how people love us, how they leave, or how they change. All we can control is how we heal after the hurt and how we rise after the fall.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
The love I know isn’t drowning together in water and calling the suffocation poetry.
- Seethala Devi Chandu
You Are Like a Flame to Me: The Algorithm of Letting Go
You think your silence means peace, but to me, it feels like a distance I never chose. You call it space, I call it disappearing. You call it calm, I call it coldness. Silence doesn’t always heal, it sometimes kills what words could have saved. And maybe one day, you will realize that ignoring someone who cared was never peace, it was a slow destruction of a beautiful relationship.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
No matter how much time passes, some memories stay alive not loudly, but quietly, hidden between our smiles and our tears. They visit in silence, in the middle of the night, when the world is asleep but the heart is awake. I know our memories will never truly leave me; they will walk with me through every phase of life, not as pain anymore, but as a reminder of what love once felt like, and of what will never return the same way again. Some connections end, but the feelings they create… they stay, living softly inside us forever.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Less dead" homicide victims, a term credited to criminologist Steven Egger, have historically been not as thoroughly investigated as their wealthier, whiter, and perhaps more sober counterparts. Pretty white college students are the most dead. Black transgender hookers with addiction issues are the least dead.
- Jillian Lauren
Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
New York looked like someone put Magic Grow on Miami, strung the whole thing with Christmas lights, then ground about a billion pounds of soot into it.
- Jillian Lauren
Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
Boredom may look harmless, but it quietly pulls you into things you don’t even need. It makes you scroll endlessly, text people you have moved on from, or chase excitement in places that drain your peace. When the mind has nothing meaningful to hold on to, it starts searching for chaos, just to feel something. That’s why boredom is dangerous, it doesn’t come alone. It brings temptation, confusion, and regret with it.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Someone finally came.
- V R Cross
He Who Gazes Into The Abyss
The day I start revealing your truth, you will have nowhere to go. Because deep down, you know what you have done, how you twisted things, how you made me look wrong just to save your image. And I still kept trying to convince you that we should clear the misunderstanding, not because I was weak, but because I thought you had some grace and some respect for what we had. But now I am not going to consider anything, now if I decide to speak, the truth will be louder than all the lies ever told. And that day, your mask will fall, and your ugly reality will be known to everyone.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
I don’t know what more I could have done for you. Maybe I cared too much, maybe I stayed too long, maybe I kept trying when there was nothing left to fix. I replay moments sometimes the things I said, the efforts I made, the silences I accepted. And still, it feels like it was never enough. But maybe that’s the truth about some people, no matter how much you give, they only remember what you couldn’t. So now I don’t question what more I could have done. I remind myself that I gave with honesty, and that should have been enough.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
The dimple on her left cheek that appeared when she smiled was more valuable than the stars in the sky.
She turned to me and said, “You open too, Aiden. What are you looking at?” she said and paused.
“I’m looking at you...
She turned to me and said, “You open too, Aiden. What are you looking at?” she said and paused.
“I’m looking at you...
- Tunahan Akgün
Hopeful Pessimist
Men don’t deal well with guilt and anger … You attack them, majority of the time their reaction will be to fight back … If you don’t attack, many men will have to face the hard reality that they have taken more from your relationship than they have given.
She rode down the sidewalk, turned toward the shadow side of the street and melted into darkness. I didn't know it then, but after that night, I'd see less and less of Dove. She began to dabble with things best left undabbled with.
- Craig Davidson
The Saturday Night Ghost Club
Everyone has their coping mechanisms, Mom. Some hide behind silk scarves and boutique cafés. Others stick to sarcasm.
Chapter 4
Chapter 4
- Irina Semikop
Voluntary pain
A true poet aims for the heart.
I started to say, So then, what about the bracelet? but I could see he'd already given his answer, and it caused a kind of sorrow to rise in me that felt fresh and tender and had nothing, really, to do with the bracelet. I think now it was sorrow for the sound of his fork scraping the plate, the way it swelled in the distance between us, how I was not even in the room.
- Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees
One of the first examples of forensic science solving a murder appears in a book called The Washing Away of Wrongs, published in 1247 by Song Ci, a Chinese coroner and detective....Metallic green flies descend in a chaotic swarm and then, as if collectively alerted, land on one sickle, crawling all over it as the other sickles lie undisturbed. The magistrate knew traces of blood and human tissue attract blowflies....But forensic science advancements are really just about finding the latest way to draw a blowfly to a bloody sickle. The goal is the same as it was in thirteenth-century rural China: cellular certainty establishing guilt.
- Michelle McNamara
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
People often talk about crawling into the rooms of recovery on their knees, but when I turned to twelve-step for the second time, I felt more like I was walking in there with my hands up—like a career criminal turning herself in, ready at last to give up the game.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
There is a prayer that we recite in those rooms that I love very much. It simply says, “Dear God—thank you for all that has been given, for all that has been taken away, and for all that remains.”
Like many gratefully recovering addicts, I stand in amazement at all that remains—astonished that I was allowed to keep anything, after all my many years of madness and acting out. By all rights, I should have lost absolutely everything in the course of my various and sundry maelstroms and upheavals. Many people with minds as disordered as mine have indeed lost everything.
Like many gratefully recovering addicts, I stand in amazement at all that remains—astonished that I was allowed to keep anything, after all my many years of madness and acting out. By all rights, I should have lost absolutely everything in the course of my various and sundry maelstroms and upheavals. Many people with minds as disordered as mine have indeed lost everything.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
The only Terrans around on Meele were the piratical mine-raiders, hiding behind their Scientific Investigation Commission accreditation, and tourists who were hot on far-flung destinations. Terrans didn't have the best reputation over there, thanks to their tendancy to dig everything and anything up.
- Izumi Suzuki
Terminal Boredom: Stories
My codependency gives me outlandish ideas about how responsible I am for others, and my anxiety distorts my perception of reality—convincing me that I can control people and keep them safe, if only I try hard enough. But I cannot control anyone.
Nor can I keep people safe from their own choices.
Adults get to do whatever they decide to do—even to the point of their own self-destruction or death. And as my sponsor always reminds me when I am about to overstep into someone else’s territory: “God didn’t bring anyone into your life for you to control them.”
Because I can’t control them. I have enough trouble controlling myself.
Nor can I keep people safe from their own choices.
Adults get to do whatever they decide to do—even to the point of their own self-destruction or death. And as my sponsor always reminds me when I am about to overstep into someone else’s territory: “God didn’t bring anyone into your life for you to control them.”
Because I can’t control them. I have enough trouble controlling myself.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
When you are in the grip of addiction, or when you are severely impacted by someone else’s addiction, eventually nothing works—not even the things that don’t seem obviously related to the addictive substance or behavior. Losing the lease to our apartment and getting my bank account hacked had nothing to do with the fact that Rayya was drugged out of her mind, or that I was lost in a dense fog of codependency—but these are also the kinds of things that happen when your life is falling apart: suddenly it’s raining hammers. Everything unravels. You sprain your ankle, your car breaks down, your dog dies. You can’t handle anything. And that’s when the madness really sets in, because it seems like the world itself is a machine of pain that has turned its full force against you.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
It is my way—it has always been my way—to become captivated by other people’s charisma and madness and wildness and beauty. To disappear into their stories and become hypnotized by their existence. To become lost in a trance of themness and to forget who I am, what I am, and where I stand.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Forgiving someone who fooled you is one of the hardest things. Especially when it’s someone you truly respected. You keep fighting between anger and empathy between hurting them back and understanding that we all make mistakes. But forgiveness isn’t about them. It’s about freeing yourself. It’s a long, emotional loop where some days you will hate them and some days you will understand them.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Some truths hit slow. Some goodbyes hurt longer. Some wounds never fully heal. Some conversations stay unfinished. Some thoughts stay thoughts. Some relationships hurt more than they heal… and we wait for closure that never comes. But this is life in its purest form, messy, unpredictable, and brutally honest. And this is how life teaches us that we don’t get to control how people love us, how they leave, or how they change. All we can control is how we heal after the hurt and how we rise after the fall.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
The love I know isn’t drowning together in water and calling the suffocation poetry.
- Seethala Devi Chandu
You Are Like a Flame to Me: The Algorithm of Letting Go
You think your silence means peace, but to me, it feels like a distance I never chose. You call it space, I call it disappearing. You call it calm, I call it coldness. Silence doesn’t always heal, it sometimes kills what words could have saved. And maybe one day, you will realize that ignoring someone who cared was never peace, it was a slow destruction of a beautiful relationship.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
No matter how much time passes, some memories stay alive not loudly, but quietly, hidden between our smiles and our tears. They visit in silence, in the middle of the night, when the world is asleep but the heart is awake. I know our memories will never truly leave me; they will walk with me through every phase of life, not as pain anymore, but as a reminder of what love once felt like, and of what will never return the same way again. Some connections end, but the feelings they create… they stay, living softly inside us forever.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Less dead" homicide victims, a term credited to criminologist Steven Egger, have historically been not as thoroughly investigated as their wealthier, whiter, and perhaps more sober counterparts. Pretty white college students are the most dead. Black transgender hookers with addiction issues are the least dead.
- Jillian Lauren
Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
New York looked like someone put Magic Grow on Miami, strung the whole thing with Christmas lights, then ground about a billion pounds of soot into it.
- Jillian Lauren
Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
Boredom may look harmless, but it quietly pulls you into things you don’t even need. It makes you scroll endlessly, text people you have moved on from, or chase excitement in places that drain your peace. When the mind has nothing meaningful to hold on to, it starts searching for chaos, just to feel something. That’s why boredom is dangerous, it doesn’t come alone. It brings temptation, confusion, and regret with it.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Someone finally came.
- V R Cross
He Who Gazes Into The Abyss
The day I start revealing your truth, you will have nowhere to go. Because deep down, you know what you have done, how you twisted things, how you made me look wrong just to save your image. And I still kept trying to convince you that we should clear the misunderstanding, not because I was weak, but because I thought you had some grace and some respect for what we had. But now I am not going to consider anything, now if I decide to speak, the truth will be louder than all the lies ever told. And that day, your mask will fall, and your ugly reality will be known to everyone.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
I don’t know what more I could have done for you. Maybe I cared too much, maybe I stayed too long, maybe I kept trying when there was nothing left to fix. I replay moments sometimes the things I said, the efforts I made, the silences I accepted. And still, it feels like it was never enough. But maybe that’s the truth about some people, no matter how much you give, they only remember what you couldn’t. So now I don’t question what more I could have done. I remind myself that I gave with honesty, and that should have been enough.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
The dimple on her left cheek that appeared when she smiled was more valuable than the stars in the sky.
She turned to me and said, “You open too, Aiden. What are you looking at?” she said and paused.
“I’m looking at you...
She turned to me and said, “You open too, Aiden. What are you looking at?” she said and paused.
“I’m looking at you...
- Tunahan Akgün
Hopeful Pessimist
Men don’t deal well with guilt and anger … You attack them, majority of the time their reaction will be to fight back … If you don’t attack, many men will have to face the hard reality that they have taken more from your relationship than they have given.
She rode down the sidewalk, turned toward the shadow side of the street and melted into darkness. I didn't know it then, but after that night, I'd see less and less of Dove. She began to dabble with things best left undabbled with.
- Craig Davidson
The Saturday Night Ghost Club
Everyone has their coping mechanisms, Mom. Some hide behind silk scarves and boutique cafés. Others stick to sarcasm.
Chapter 4
Chapter 4
- Irina Semikop
Voluntary pain
A true poet aims for the heart.
I started to say, So then, what about the bracelet? but I could see he'd already given his answer, and it caused a kind of sorrow to rise in me that felt fresh and tender and had nothing, really, to do with the bracelet. I think now it was sorrow for the sound of his fork scraping the plate, the way it swelled in the distance between us, how I was not even in the room.
- Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees
One of the first examples of forensic science solving a murder appears in a book called The Washing Away of Wrongs, published in 1247 by Song Ci, a Chinese coroner and detective....Metallic green flies descend in a chaotic swarm and then, as if collectively alerted, land on one sickle, crawling all over it as the other sickles lie undisturbed. The magistrate knew traces of blood and human tissue attract blowflies....But forensic science advancements are really just about finding the latest way to draw a blowfly to a bloody sickle. The goal is the same as it was in thirteenth-century rural China: cellular certainty establishing guilt.
- Michelle McNamara
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
People often talk about crawling into the rooms of recovery on their knees, but when I turned to twelve-step for the second time, I felt more like I was walking in there with my hands up—like a career criminal turning herself in, ready at last to give up the game.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
There is a prayer that we recite in those rooms that I love very much. It simply says, “Dear God—thank you for all that has been given, for all that has been taken away, and for all that remains.”
Like many gratefully recovering addicts, I stand in amazement at all that remains—astonished that I was allowed to keep anything, after all my many years of madness and acting out. By all rights, I should have lost absolutely everything in the course of my various and sundry maelstroms and upheavals. Many people with minds as disordered as mine have indeed lost everything.
Like many gratefully recovering addicts, I stand in amazement at all that remains—astonished that I was allowed to keep anything, after all my many years of madness and acting out. By all rights, I should have lost absolutely everything in the course of my various and sundry maelstroms and upheavals. Many people with minds as disordered as mine have indeed lost everything.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
The only Terrans around on Meele were the piratical mine-raiders, hiding behind their Scientific Investigation Commission accreditation, and tourists who were hot on far-flung destinations. Terrans didn't have the best reputation over there, thanks to their tendancy to dig everything and anything up.
- Izumi Suzuki
Terminal Boredom: Stories
My codependency gives me outlandish ideas about how responsible I am for others, and my anxiety distorts my perception of reality—convincing me that I can control people and keep them safe, if only I try hard enough. But I cannot control anyone.
Nor can I keep people safe from their own choices.
Adults get to do whatever they decide to do—even to the point of their own self-destruction or death. And as my sponsor always reminds me when I am about to overstep into someone else’s territory: “God didn’t bring anyone into your life for you to control them.”
Because I can’t control them. I have enough trouble controlling myself.
Nor can I keep people safe from their own choices.
Adults get to do whatever they decide to do—even to the point of their own self-destruction or death. And as my sponsor always reminds me when I am about to overstep into someone else’s territory: “God didn’t bring anyone into your life for you to control them.”
Because I can’t control them. I have enough trouble controlling myself.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
When you are in the grip of addiction, or when you are severely impacted by someone else’s addiction, eventually nothing works—not even the things that don’t seem obviously related to the addictive substance or behavior. Losing the lease to our apartment and getting my bank account hacked had nothing to do with the fact that Rayya was drugged out of her mind, or that I was lost in a dense fog of codependency—but these are also the kinds of things that happen when your life is falling apart: suddenly it’s raining hammers. Everything unravels. You sprain your ankle, your car breaks down, your dog dies. You can’t handle anything. And that’s when the madness really sets in, because it seems like the world itself is a machine of pain that has turned its full force against you.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
It is my way—it has always been my way—to become captivated by other people’s charisma and madness and wildness and beauty. To disappear into their stories and become hypnotized by their existence. To become lost in a trance of themness and to forget who I am, what I am, and where I stand.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Forgiving someone who fooled you is one of the hardest things. Especially when it’s someone you truly respected. You keep fighting between anger and empathy between hurting them back and understanding that we all make mistakes. But forgiveness isn’t about them. It’s about freeing yourself. It’s a long, emotional loop where some days you will hate them and some days you will understand them.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Some truths hit slow. Some goodbyes hurt longer. Some wounds never fully heal. Some conversations stay unfinished. Some thoughts stay thoughts. Some relationships hurt more than they heal… and we wait for closure that never comes. But this is life in its purest form, messy, unpredictable, and brutally honest. And this is how life teaches us that we don’t get to control how people love us, how they leave, or how they change. All we can control is how we heal after the hurt and how we rise after the fall.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
The love I know isn’t drowning together in water and calling the suffocation poetry.
- Seethala Devi Chandu
You Are Like a Flame to Me: The Algorithm of Letting Go
You think your silence means peace, but to me, it feels like a distance I never chose. You call it space, I call it disappearing. You call it calm, I call it coldness. Silence doesn’t always heal, it sometimes kills what words could have saved. And maybe one day, you will realize that ignoring someone who cared was never peace, it was a slow destruction of a beautiful relationship.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
No matter how much time passes, some memories stay alive not loudly, but quietly, hidden between our smiles and our tears. They visit in silence, in the middle of the night, when the world is asleep but the heart is awake. I know our memories will never truly leave me; they will walk with me through every phase of life, not as pain anymore, but as a reminder of what love once felt like, and of what will never return the same way again. Some connections end, but the feelings they create… they stay, living softly inside us forever.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Less dead" homicide victims, a term credited to criminologist Steven Egger, have historically been not as thoroughly investigated as their wealthier, whiter, and perhaps more sober counterparts. Pretty white college students are the most dead. Black transgender hookers with addiction issues are the least dead.
- Jillian Lauren
Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
New York looked like someone put Magic Grow on Miami, strung the whole thing with Christmas lights, then ground about a billion pounds of soot into it.
- Jillian Lauren
Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
Boredom may look harmless, but it quietly pulls you into things you don’t even need. It makes you scroll endlessly, text people you have moved on from, or chase excitement in places that drain your peace. When the mind has nothing meaningful to hold on to, it starts searching for chaos, just to feel something. That’s why boredom is dangerous, it doesn’t come alone. It brings temptation, confusion, and regret with it.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Someone finally came.
- V R Cross
He Who Gazes Into The Abyss
The day I start revealing your truth, you will have nowhere to go. Because deep down, you know what you have done, how you twisted things, how you made me look wrong just to save your image. And I still kept trying to convince you that we should clear the misunderstanding, not because I was weak, but because I thought you had some grace and some respect for what we had. But now I am not going to consider anything, now if I decide to speak, the truth will be louder than all the lies ever told. And that day, your mask will fall, and your ugly reality will be known to everyone.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
I don’t know what more I could have done for you. Maybe I cared too much, maybe I stayed too long, maybe I kept trying when there was nothing left to fix. I replay moments sometimes the things I said, the efforts I made, the silences I accepted. And still, it feels like it was never enough. But maybe that’s the truth about some people, no matter how much you give, they only remember what you couldn’t. So now I don’t question what more I could have done. I remind myself that I gave with honesty, and that should have been enough.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
The dimple on her left cheek that appeared when she smiled was more valuable than the stars in the sky.
She turned to me and said, “You open too, Aiden. What are you looking at?” she said and paused.
“I’m looking at you...
She turned to me and said, “You open too, Aiden. What are you looking at?” she said and paused.
“I’m looking at you...
- Tunahan Akgün
Hopeful Pessimist
Men don’t deal well with guilt and anger … You attack them, majority of the time their reaction will be to fight back … If you don’t attack, many men will have to face the hard reality that they have taken more from your relationship than they have given.
She rode down the sidewalk, turned toward the shadow side of the street and melted into darkness. I didn't know it then, but after that night, I'd see less and less of Dove. She began to dabble with things best left undabbled with.
- Craig Davidson
The Saturday Night Ghost Club
Everyone has their coping mechanisms, Mom. Some hide behind silk scarves and boutique cafés. Others stick to sarcasm.
Chapter 4
Chapter 4
- Irina Semikop
Voluntary pain
A true poet aims for the heart.
I started to say, So then, what about the bracelet? but I could see he'd already given his answer, and it caused a kind of sorrow to rise in me that felt fresh and tender and had nothing, really, to do with the bracelet. I think now it was sorrow for the sound of his fork scraping the plate, the way it swelled in the distance between us, how I was not even in the room.
- Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees