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I know I am planning to visit a "land" that is not entirely foreign, only foreign to me. As an adventurer, I am on a journey that I believe will last me my whole life. A new relationship, discovery, or awareness excites me.
— Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem, Questing Marilyn
A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.
— Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
[M]an is not an island, he is more like a spaghetti junction.
— Elizabeth Cooke, Land Law
He's a sweet man whose crime was that he didn't love me quite enough, and because this wasn't much of a crime I had to make up some bigger ones.
— Nick Hornby
This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.
— Emily Perkins, Novel About My Wife
If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced my through years ago.
— Erica Goros, The Daisy Chain
Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spoke that beguiling combination of amusement and haughtiness that she carried off so well. It was a look that expressed disdain at Campion’s guarded advances but also a kind of measured probationary respect as well. It was a look that said You dare to think that I will find you as interesting as you obviously find me Well perhaps in that very act of daring you become interesting to me if only fleetingly.
— Alastair Reynolds
You know what really fries my Puerto rican pancakes?
— Mark Gungor, Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage: Unlocking the Secrets to Life, Love and Marriage
The lamb baa-ed vigorously as Mary dragged it into the manicure room, and Zel winced. She really should insist Julie come work, She could use the help, plus it would mean extra mother-daughter time--and, Zel thought wryly, I won't have to find a spare tower in the suburbs.Closing the appointment book, Zel went to finish trimming Linda's hair. "Did I hear a sheep out there?" Linda asked."Sick dog," Zel said. "Now, bend your head down." Linda obeyed and Zel ran her fingers through the back of her hair to check for evenness. All she needed to do was think of a way to make Julie come without Julie immediately assuming her mother was trying to ruin her life. Not an easy task.
— Sarah Beth Durst, Into the Wild
Do you mind?” she asked.“Mind what?”“While you were looking in the mirror I couldn’t help myself and I began fantasizing about you. And I figured if I was going to continue to fantasize about you, the only polite thing to do was to ask your permission. So now I’m doing the polite thing again and asking, ‘do you mind?’”“No, Nina. I don’t mind at all.”Then she leaned down and kissed him.
— Richard Finney, Kicky-Wicky
Back at home, days later, feel cranky and tired. Sit on the couch and tell him he's stupid. That you bet he doesn't know who Coriolanus is. That since you moved in you've noticed he rarely reads. He will give you a hurt, hungry-to-learn look, with his James Cagney eyes. He will try to kiss you. Turn your head. Feel suffocated. (from "How")
— Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
Moreover, in conversations with women, men do most of the talking (Haas, 1979), and despite hackneyed stereotypes about women being more talkative than men, we're apparently used to this pattern. When people listen to record-ings of conversations, they think it's more disrespectful and assertive for a woman to interrupt a m~ than vice versa (Lafrance, 1992).
— Rowland S. Miller, Intimate Relationships
I admit I get the occasional headache," I said. "I admit some of my hangovers are epic. But usually all it takes for me to bounce back is a sauna, cold-plunge pool, steam bath, massage, and wasabi to clear the sinuses".
— George Gurley, George & Hilly: The Anatomy of a Relationship
Couples will no longer spend their nights in their houses dedicated to habitation and reception, the customary social reason for banalization. The chamber of love will be more remote from the center of the city: it will completely naturally re-create for the partners the notion of ex-centricity, in a place less open to the light, more hidden, in order to return to the atmosphere of the secret. The contrary move, the search for a center of thought, will proceed by the same technique.
— Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discover the fulfillment of intimate relationships with flesh-and-blood neighbors and teammates in concrete place and time, and we escape the pressure of mainstream media to channel intimacy only as virtual embrace.
— Jose Panate-Aceves and John Hayes
Show me a little bit of your soul under all those pretty words you spill, and I promise you I will drink every last drop.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
You're asking yourself if you will ever get over it. - I don't believe we ever do. Getting over something implies you floated on past the pain, blew kisses, and waved goodbye while leaping to freedom. I've never been able to jump after having the contents of my heart scattered and sewn over fields that will produce memory-laden blooms. The thing is... you get through it. But the seeds have been planted. Those memories grow. And every morning I still hear: 'He loved me. He loved me not.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
And I find myself asking again and again.... What was it about such a beautiful man, who was able to leave such ugly scars?
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
When you act against gravity, you break your body. When you act against Love, you break your heart.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
The person you fall in love with only holds a mirror for you to see the pieces of yourself that you have lost, given away, or were taken away from you in the process of life.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
When we fall in love, we recognise in the other the fragments of ourselves that we have lost.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
Lift up your eyes from your books, from your past, from your hurts and look upon all people with love, because when you look into another’s eyes and see innocence, you find it in yourself.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
Sometimes “Good bye” is just another way of saying “I love you
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
The fundamental emotional need of every child is being-with.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
If love is what we are, then every human interaction is an opportunity to express ourselves.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D., Sleepers: A Little Book on How to Find Hope, Meaning and the Courage to Fall in Love with Your Dreams
I have an attraction to strangeand unusual things.I find them interesting,spellbinding,utterly fascinating.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
She adored fairy tales,yet derived great rewardrewriting them to the melody of her own warrior soul.Her fairytales weren’t made of desperate girlsbeing rescued by handsomespoiled princes.Her stories were made of badass womenteasing monstersand running wild with dragons.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
The moon glistens in her dreamy eyes as she frolics in the dark forest. She’s got wild overgrowing in her bones, and tangles upon tangles of midnight weaving through her long silky hair, this belle of the night.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Don’t rule out magic in ordinary things.Simply open your heartExpand your mindand believe. Magic is all aroundit can be felt in raindrops touching your cheeksand seen in rainbows after a storm.Falling in love is also a magical thing. 
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
She’s over the top rebellious,but damn her heart overflowing with insane love.She shakes thing up.Doesn’t play by rules and certainly fitsin nobody’s pretty perfect box.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
You broke meI’m trying to put allthe piecesback togetherThe processis takinglonger than expected.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Those very habits promoting emotional distance keep us from experiencing the love we so desperately long for and the love we are meant to give away.
— Erin M. Straza, Comfort Detox: Finding Freedom from Habits That Bind You
Intoxicate me with the beauty and breath of your soul.Leave such imprints on my heart that you come to me in dreams,and I will leave you with eternal light,cherishing you until the end of time through synchronicity, through poetry, through mystery and undeniable energy.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
My hair smells of oceanic windMy eyes are two starfishThe charming, turquoise seais seducing meThe rhythms of the calmingCrashing waves are my guide Omnipotent, almost holy,They seek to cleanse my polluted soulHere, by the seductive sea,I am unshackled. I am free.I am me.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Don’t bring confusion to my table. Bring flowers. Bring books. Bring cakes.But leave your indecisiveness behind.My heart is not up for breaking (again) and my time is precious.Don’t waste either on murky thoughts and cloudy thinking.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
He thought she was like all the rest... that she'd be swayed by his attention and charm. But she got tired of watching him chase his own ass and dealing with his funny farm.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Every word on every page, represents a love that captured this heart... fully, and never set it free.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Our spirits are connected honey. Wrapped in firsts of gnarled heartache. But I promise not to let go if you don't.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I always wanted you close. Never more than a heartbeat away. I used to think I wanted you most when I was at my weakest, and relying on your strength. But the truth is, even on the days I raged like a lion, and had no need of a 'pat on the back' - I still found myself wanting to lean on you.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Tell me about the love you've lost. Maybe my story won't seem so horrifying.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
It may happen once or perhaps several times during your lifetime, but you'll meet a 'soulmate'. The bond will be instantaneous. They'll be a perfect fit for the empty indention your heart has for rent, and you'll almost think you 'wished' them into existence. One touch... and every pent-up emotion you have buried, will flood your aching heart. The magic is never more apparent that when you realize each of your souls are a perfect template of each other.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I don't expect you to fight over me... But I do expect you to fight for me... for us.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I'm tired again this morning. Was I sleepwalking in your nightmares again last night?
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
She's fire. But she won't burn you... she knows all too well, how it feel to live with ashes.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
He said he'd never opened up to anyone... But that confiding in me, was like learning to breathe all over again. I don't know about you, but how do you turn away from that?
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I wouldn't go back in time to erase you... No. I'd go back just to feel you twice. Then I'd press replay - again and again.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I wanted it to be you. I wanted your eyes to be locked with mine during every fear and tear experienced throughout my lifetime.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
If you find yourself still clinging to every feeling you thought was lost forever... Maybe, just maybe, it's the only place you can be found.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I'm not simple. Loving me will never be easy. I bring every travesty that's rocked me- with me, to the table. I won't pretend to be something I'm not, and I don't expect you to be blemish free either. That's much too boring of an existence. A past means you've lived, you've prevailed. My ears are open. My heart is accepting. I want to know how you are. I want to know what made you... and I want to feel free to share the 'not so pretty' parts of me, with you.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
The day she realized they were never meant to be, is the day she now calls her - Birthday.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I write about pain so you know you're not alone. I've felt it too. I'm releasing it... in hope that you will too.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I was feeling a bit overwhelmed earlier. Thinking - what if it doesn't work out this time... again. And then I remembered my rebound rate is pretty damn good. It's my super power.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
All of the reasons we decided to part, elude me now.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
You were nothing more than a daydream that a beautiful heart was bound to fall in love with, and daydreams aren't real and beautiful hearts trust easily, fall fast and crash hard.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Always the wild child, conceived in flames, born of fire. Drawn to the forbidden, witch, warlock, burning stones. Her blood is made of moonlight; part dark, part light. Her heart, it's a sword; fiercely loyal and will fight to the death for those whom she loves. You can throw her in the fire, she always returns as a flame: the fervor is her anchor, her safe-haven... her blood.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
If you see her staring into space, probably her mind is in a deep poetic embrace or a story is brewing in her clever little head. This girl is in a trance, it will pass, just let her be until she has completed her beautiful internal dance.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Lionhearted woman carrying silver swords beneath your skin. Your heart is huge, copious courage you hold within. You fight and never give in when the cause is worthy, brave valiant woman.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
A relationship is about recognising (re-cognising or re-knowing) in every moment the other as the beautiful soul that he or she is.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D., Sleepers: A Little Book on How to Find Hope, Meaning and the Courage to Fall in Love with Your Dreams
Human relationships are binary: they are complete and fully loving when both people are authentic or they are not at all.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D., Sleepers: A Little Book on How to Find Hope, Meaning and the Courage to Fall in Love with Your Dreams
It takes a strong man to be with a woman full of fire and stars and all of October.
— Melody  Lee
There is nothing like young love. It comes at a time before the heart knows to protect itself, when everything important is raw and exposed—the perfect environment for a soul-sucking, heart-crushing burst.
— Alessandra Torre, The Ghostwriter
With all our reasons for living. Through our love and laughter, there's an unmistakable truth. The most valuable love in the world is a healthy relationship with our children.
— Ron Baratono
This is how you lose her.You lose her when you forget to remember the little things that mean the world to her: the sincerity in a stranger’s voice during a trip to the grocery store, the delight of finding something lost or forgotten like a sticker from when she was five, the selflessness of a child giving a part of his meal to another, the scent of new books in the store, the surprise short but honest notes she tucks in her journal and others you could only see if you look closely.You must remember when she forgets.You lose her when you don’t notice that she notices everything about you: your use of the proper punctuation that tells her continuation rather than finality, your silence when you’re about to ask a question but you think anything you’re about to say to her would be silly, your mindless humming when it is too quiet, your handwriting when you sign your name on blank sheets of paper, your muted laughter when you are trying to be polite, and more and more of what you are, which you don’t even know about yourself, because she pays attention.She remembers when you forget.You lose her for every second you make her feel less and less of the beauty that she is. When you make her feel that she is replaceable. She wants to feel cherished. When you make her feel that you are fleeting. She wants you to stay. When you make her feel inadequate. She wants to know that she is enough and she does not need to change for you, nor for anyone else because she is she and she is beautiful, kind and good.You must learn her.You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You must remind her that you are there. You must know how long it takes for her to give up. You must be there to hold her when she is about to.You must love her because many have tried and failed. And she wants to know that she is worthy to be loved, that she is worthy to be kept.And, this is how you keep her.
— Junot Díaz
How do you know they aren't the one? At the first sight of total disregard for your hurt, your gut will feel uneasy. I'm reminding you to listen up.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
If I had known his favorite game was mental twister, I would have suggested a movie over game night.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Let me be clear. I applaud self love. I appreciate self value. But if you're not capable of loving another person just as much... you will never experience true love.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I never asked anything of him, yet he gave me everything. he did not run...
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
You are the most important person in your life. Your relationship with yourself defines your relationships with every other person you encounter. Celebrate yourself and celebrate all those around you.
— Avina Celeste
Did you ever love someone," Lucy says, "and know they love you, and you're attracted to them, and you know they're attracted to you, and so many things are exactly right, but it doesn't matter, because the few things that are wrong are completely, totally fucked?
— Kristin Cashore, Jane, Unlimited
It was no mere accident you were sent to me, perfect synchronicity. Familiar souls wrapped in skin, brought together through time again.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
She wasn't chaos. She was more of a slow burn that caught in your heart... and then you had no choice but to engulf her all at once. She was home.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
When the world is too much, create your own. I do it every day.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
I want your naked soul or nothing at all.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Off the Santorini cliff on a dark, starless night, I tossed a message in a bottle and love found me washed up on the black lava sand of the Aegean shore. As with my previous loves, volcanic in nature. Almost destructive before it started.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
The answer to violence is the improvement of childhood.
— Stefan Molyneux
The strength of a kingdom comes from its King,The strength of a King comes from his Queen.
— Cody Edward Lee Miller
All he did was breathe life into my soul. I was a conquest. An easy one, and you don't know how badly it hurts to know that I was used and tried for a time. Then thrown back.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I've never met anyone who loves in the same way. But that's the beauty of finding the heart meant for yours. The right love will accept the 'not so lovable' parts of you too.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Like yourself, just as you are. Don't look at people and measure your self love by what they project in order to make themselves happy. Take a long look. You don't want their lives anyway. You don't like anything they do, say, or portray. Why then have you been so hard on yourself? You don't deserve to be treated that way.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I hear you knocking but I can't let you in. The last time almost killed me. Love, My heart
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I knew he was the one when he mended my wings and looked forward to where they would take me. Embrace those who encourage your growth... who don't fear the journey into Wonderland, Neverland, Whereverland.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
It was a good thing that when it came to married men, she was a girl with a firm moral compass, or else she would have been tempted to make him break his marital promises.
— Kiran Manral, All Aboard!
I fell out of love with him and he thought I fell in love with someone else, I did. I fell in love with me.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
We met at the blue lagoon on the even of a full moon. Dancing wild like those gypsy girls, with their messy hair and glittering eyes. We made magic behind the mangrove trees and ended up with bruised knees, as the sound of the win and the waves serenaded us late into the sweet bohemian night.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
When he was in the army he'd picked up a great many girls: sometimes nothing happened except a lot of talk, and that was all right too: because it didn't matter what you said to them, for in those transient moments lies or truth were arbitrary and you were whatever you wanted to be.
— Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
You keep playing with what broke you,then wonder why you don’t heal.Leave the wound alone,throw away the poison,and watch the magic of recovery.Your wings of wisdom are ready for flight.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
When our eyes met, I felt your intake of breath. I knew then I wasn't alone in my feelings. You were trying to hold on to normalcy as much as me. But baby, what we felt was anything but normal. The damn planet stopped moving... and it didn't start up again until you reached out and touched me.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I have waltzed with wolves and howled at the moon. But my heart will always remember the slow-dance that ended much too soon.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
You are not disposable. I know you feel that way when people choose to walk out of your life, but their emptiness causes space. And that vacant area of your life is desperately crying out for the one meant to take up residence. Let the angry tenant go. You don't want someone staying because you've begged and pleaded for their occupancy. You want the one who sees your quaking heart and says: "Honey I'm home".
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Love does not pay attention to timetables or knock when it is convenient for you. True love shows up unexpectedly, bags fully packed, daring you to offer it a place to stay.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Love is not complicated. It just 'is'. The complicated part is finding two souls who are feeling it as the same time in their lives... and for each other. Feeling it so deep that they're willing to fight every second of the day to keep it alive. That's the complicated part.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
That you were able to walk away, gives me my answer as plain as day.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Be careful with those promises who whisper while wooing and loving someone. There are those that take them to heart, and some who take them to soul.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
We are the kind of Love Story that keeps souls awake at night and causes hearts to have stage fright.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I'm still in love with the parts I believed to be true. All the lies that began and ended with 'I love you'.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I loved him... much more than I liked him. And therein was the beginning of the end.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Nothing is as endearing as a handwritten letter scribed by the person who holds your heart spellbound.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Our love is immortal. We have become a love story. I siphoned the moments from my heart and soul, and I have inked them into beautifully bound pages. We live on for another generation to try and understand how the beauty of love can turn into ugly reality.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
How I wish I only felt using my hands and not with my whole heart.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I saw a sadness shivering in his eyes that night. They resemble a heart flat-lining. I wanted to ask him what put it there, but he blinked... and it was gone. And I knew that a man who could control pain so exquisitely had no business paying with my heart.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Your memory straddles my mind.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
...and he will never grasp that what he calls 'bitching' is merely my heart talking out loud.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
She tells everyone she's taken. Yet her heart whispers: he's taking too long.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
There are days when my imagination in my enemy. It likes to keep me company in my darkest of times and romanticizes a past that was more of a horror story than a fairytale.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I'm not afraid of anything anymore. I've found out Ghosts don't hide under my bed or in my closets either. They exist in plain sight - everyday; Conjured up by 'our song' playing on the radio. By the mailman's blue eyes that are so like yours I could get utterly lost in them. They come as raindrops, kissing my skin... the way you used to. Ghosts are everywhere.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
It was in the words he didn't say... that I found all the answers to my questions.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
True love will break you, it devotes to break your beat up, broken heart awaiting to repair and align you to your true purpose.
— John Maiorana (oohGiovanni)
Everyone knows the experience of encountering other persons only under the aspect of how they intersect with our projects, and of noticing them only insofar as we have to notice them in order to interact with them as we pursue our goals. But from time to time we realize more keenly that the other with whom we are dealing is a person, and then we feel the irreverence and the arrogance of our attitude. We become aware of a certain violence with which we have been treating other persons; we realize that we have to draw back and grant them a space in which to be themselves as persons, and that we have to cease seeing them exclusively in relation to our projects.
— John F. Crosby, The Selfhood of the Human Person
Those with wild hearts love biglove fiercelylove with every fiberof their feral being.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
I may be lost, but I'm traveling the right way.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Such hungry desperation in a single kiss when it's enamored in love and bathed in bliss.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Silence can be lovely or disturbing, depending on the source.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
A relationship is a risk that your heart takes and your mind supports. Remember this enough so that when the risk unveils itself, it does not tear you apart. Forget it enough so that you can enjoy the beauty it brings today.
— Drishti Bablani
I wear the words we didn't say. My heart is clothed in them every day.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
You think it's easy to forget someone who made you look forward to tomorrow... And I hope you never experience convincing a paralyzed heart to keep on beating when it simply wants to die.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
She knows he's not the same. He's different now. The eyes that once held too much contain nothing at all. He is colorless. Faded like sun-drenched wallpaper. The man that stands before her has no answers to her questions, and no ointment for her fears.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Having to explain to someone how they hurt you, always feels like an ass kicking... again.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I had never met another who loved my mind more than my body. I could feel his curiosity finger-walk through my thoughts... intentional and hard. Absorbing me. Learning me. And as he leaned in and held my hand close to his, I heard my soul sigh... in a deep grateful breath.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
... And one day it dawned on me that I had spent entirely too much time waiting on you to grow a voice box.... and the balls to use it.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I have no doubt that Taylor Swift will call one day after suffering writers block: "Alfa, I was told that you were the person to call." I gotcha girlfriend.
— Alfa H
He kissed her good morning like she was the reason sun decided to shine.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
The day you start giving yourself priority and catering to your own needs first, that day everything will fall in place. Most of us were taught (or believed) that taking care of your own needs first is being selfish. Nothing can be farther from the truth. Unless you look after yourself first, how can you look after others? It has been proved beyond reasonable doubt that if you want to help others, you have to take care of your own needs first. No, you are not being selfish by doing that. Charity begins at home- in this case with your own self. You can feed others provided you have enough to eat. More often than not, you are misused if you are nice. You have to compromise many a time to suit needs of others. That way you are seconding yourself to someone else. Stop doing that. You have a right to your needs and a reasonable chance to fulfill them. Demarcate clear boundaries, draw very clear unambiguous lines and stick to them; your personal space should not be violated. If in your relationships you find that all your efforts are concentrated on pleasing others then it is high time you unshackled and freed yourself from their vice like grip or else you will sink into quicksand with no chance of survival. If people don’t like the new you and decide to walk out, don’t stop them, they were never meant to be in your circle. Good riddance. Believe me, you will feel relieved because a very heavy load would have been lifted from your chest. Surround yourself with like-minded people who care for you, respect your individuality, see your value and don’t cross the line. They are people you should stick to- because they are genuine.
— Latika Teotia
They beg you for transparency. Yet when you give them a peek behind the curtain shrouding your hear, they run in sheer fright.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
There are days when I want to dip my soul in memories and just soak. Then there are others where I'm praying they'll be washed away.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I never needed a Man. I needed a Viking. I needed someone who wasn't afraid of my strengths, or of my needs. I chose wrong... in the past. I thought I had to find someone who could put up with my hunger for life. But I was so damn wrong. I needed a Viking. I needed someone who would admire all the things about me that tepid men were intimidated by.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
... I don't know what I feel anymore, or maybe it's that I don't know HOW to feel anymore. I question every move I make, every breath I take, and every flutter of an eyelash. I've developed a twitch from always being on guard. I'm alert at night, and numb during the day, but I'm always ready. Maybe, I can intercept tragedy from striking again.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
What is it about those unresolved endings that cause you to question every decision when you're trying to move forward?
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I hurt in places that you brought back from the dead. Now I have to lay them to rest again.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
He was as incapable of imagining pain or danger to himself as he was incapable of conceiving the pain he caused others.
— Graham Greene
Uplifting greetings bring a better spirit to your relationship
— Brent M. Jones
I didn't have to say a word. My love for him appeared upon my flesh like virgin tattooed skin.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Keep yourself as busy as you can. Try and forget. But even with 7 billion other distractions... you don't forget me.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
He loved me, but in a lukewarm way. I needed scalding, but he loved in one temperature; tepid.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
When the sun grew too hot we went into the wood where waves of Bluebells dashed around the foot of the Oak in front of us... I never knew before, the delight of offering oneself up; I even longed for some self sacrifice, to have to give up something for her sake. It intoxicated me to think I was making another happy...
— W.N.P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man
We each can foster loving and kind relationships through meditation and repeating mantras.
— Eknath Easwaren, Conquest of Mind
I was head over heels, now I just see my heel in your head
— Alexandra Harvey
Kiss her gypsy soul and love her for the wild rose she is.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
You're sexy and suave and you say the right things, but unless you can reach into my soul and tantalize my mind our connection will be null and void.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
The relationships flourish with exchanged respect, and not by pretending or beggary, as that expressing the opinions is the shortest way to build the bridges of confidence and expanding the circle of special relationships.
— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi
I want your scars, your darkness, your secrets. I want to see the interior of your soul.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
He felt like sin but tasted like love so what's a clumsy girl to do but stumble in delicious crazy love.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Your body is a temple and I'm in need of serious prayer.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
He is my thunderstorm, the lighting coursing through my veins. I am his hurricane, his colorful bow of rain.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Don't want a complicated love. Just want you to grab my demons, kiss my madness and run away with me.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
He loved hte curves on her body, her soft skin and pouty lower lip, her deep soulful eyes. He adored her voice; sometimes sultry, sometimes fiery. Her laugh, her playfulness... he adored it all. But what really turned him on were the curves in her mind, the twists and turns, the fire, the brilliance - and her compassionate heart; the beat of it harmonizing so sweetly and perfectly with the beat of his. The whole package was beyond thrilling... yet her mind, her heart, those were the immortal aphrodisiacs.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
You became moon dust in my soul, I couldn't quite brush you away because somehow you always returned to haunt my heart.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
You can't expect a wolf to play with you and not eventually bite.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Occasionally you can hear her howl, when the sky is black and the moon is full.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
You can only hurt a woman so many times before her fangs grow sharp, her claws scratch deep, and her eyes become blades.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Your love was a vine - enchanting and beautiful, crawling around my heart and up my throat; then it strangled me. Your love, hauntingly tragic.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
I tend to interpret that whole 'everyone's wife is a Mossad agent' thing in a more sort of metaphorical way--that people you're intimate with might be, like, 'double agents,' y'know? It's a weird kind of paranoia you get about people you love--that they might turn out to be completely different from who you think they are, that it's all been some sort of diabolically patient plot against you. I think that's a pretty normal fear you have in any serious relationship. And that's why it's such a popular part of the epic, because so many people can relate to that fear. But personally, I don't really worry about it too much.
— Mark Leyner, The Sugar Frosted Nutsack
A man us measured by the depths of his commitments.
— Mark William Goldman
But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time it isn't true. Of course one knows why one's always taking care not to destroy the illusion. 
— Virginia Woolf
She's the kind of girl who brings you to the moon without you even being aware. The kind of girl you trip on love with. The kind of girl you never forget.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
You're too sane for a lunatic girl like me. You live in reality, while I tango in the jungle of my imagination making love to firecracker dreams.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
When you committed to love me, cherish me, be only with me, protect my heart, I took all that literally. Silly me.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
His fangs sank deep into my heart. He made me his. He possessed me like a demon and loved me like his life depended on it.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
I like your mind when it plays with mine. We harmonize, like a dirty sweet symphony.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
THEY SAY "MOST RELATIONSHIPS FAIL DUE TO THE POVERTY." I COMPLETELY DISAGREE WITH THAT.I HAVE SEEN COUPLES WHO COME FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND THEY STARTED THEIR LIFE FROM NOTHING, THEY DON'T EVEN SPOKE ENGLISH AND TODAY THEY LIVE BETTER LIFE THAN MANY COUPLES I KNOW WHO ARE BORN IN USA. I THING MOST RELATIONSHIPS FAIL DUE TO THE LACK OF MOTIVATION LACK OF COMMUNISCATION AND THEIR LIFE GOALS.
— Beta Metani' Marashi
In case you didn't know... You are her. The one he let get away.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Your ability to make me feel like I was less than I was took a while to recover from. But after ripping my own self worth to shreds for so long, I realized that I wasn't less just because I was more than your inexperienced hands could handle... and that is your loss.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Don't blame my heart's appetite for how it chooses to feast, for my heart is a wild lover, an all-consuming beast.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
He smelled like a wolf and I knew I should run, instead I opened my heart and invited him in for a bite.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
She is wild love and eternal fire - A sensual blend of soft heart and burning desire. Yes, an acquired taste, but the truth is once you fall in love with her, you'll never recover. Her love will seep into your veins, you'll never be the same.
— Melody  Lee
Don't analyze her love. Just turn the green light on and move into her soul.
— Melody  Lee
I loved you unabashedly in the rain, you were real, raw, accustomed to pain. I loved you mostly in the rain, where you exposed your broken soul, unashamed, dancing despite it all.
— Melody  Lee
We didn't just bump into each other or randomly meet. It was more like a soul collision, meant to be.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
When it comes to matters of the heart and soul, I'm not a falling kind of girl. I'm more of a slamming, crashing, erupting...
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Accidental, unintended connections are the best concocted by the universe long before realizing the moon's heartbeat was waiting for you.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Sometimes, the only things in this world that make sense are the moon, my madness and your hands messing up my hair, while your teeth sink into my soul.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Trying not to let your lack of depth bring out the irritable in me-- there is only so much shallow an ocean can handle.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Kiss with your soul, where lips can never reach. Touch with your eyes, penetrate deep. Love every part, fully, complete.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Some people have hollow souls. They’ll see your light and like a moth to a flame, they’ll gravitate toward you. Be cautious, for these souls will attempt to steal your joy and try robbing the sparkle from your eyes.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Come play with my wild - I need my hair pulled, my lips kissed, your tender caress. I need your savage, I need your gentle. Only you know how to embrace my fire, the secrets I desire. Come play with my wild and I'll love you like there's no tomorrow.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
You are the calmest, fiercest person I know, and that is enough to draw me into your world and woo me into your heart. I've always enjoyed a good paradox and puzzle. You are no exception.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
You have that faraway look in your eyes that makes me want to pull you into my dreams, bring you to your knees worshiping me - desperately. You, the nectar and the muse of my poetry.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
You carry stories under your bright sad eyes, bag loads and I wish to god I could help you unload.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
I could make love with you until the mood decides to never glow again.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Promise me you'll stay and I promise to haunt you in the most heavenly way - with dark devotion and deep emotion.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
You will be my thunder. I'll be your lightning. Even the heavens will rage with jealousy.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Class Act.She's a first class act, graced with refinement and tact. But hold on! She has a beastly witty mind, a feral appetite for adventure, and a savage need for primal love! She's beautifully twisted, so before you take the plunge be sure you can swim deep.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
I love it when you meet an angel on Earth and they have no idea that's what they are; a human angel, an angel covered in skin. They hare the best kinds of humans to know. As your eyes widen, as you evolve and your soul is receptive, you will encounter and recognize these angels on Earth more and more.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
It's hard to argue over money when a girl flashes you her pussy.
— Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Going to New York
You are important to me , because i thought so.
— Haritha Velpureddy
This is one of the subtle things to be understood. We are always wise if we have to advise others but when we are in the same trap, with the same problem, the same crisis, we are not so wise. If somebody else comes to you with a problem, you will give him good advice and the advice may be right. But if you have the same problem you will not be able to give yourself the same advice. Why? Because when it is somebody else’s problem you are detached.
— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, When the Shoe Fits: Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu
Take me to that special place where you kiss me and the world forgets to exist.
— Melody  Lee
No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.
— Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
It's only awkward if it matters.
— Joyce Rachelle
Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greater proportions. This is a well known fact about detached people for whom sexuality may be the only bridge to others, but it is not restricted to being an obvious substitute for human closeness. It shows also in the haste with which people may rush into sexual relations, without giving themselves a chance to find out whether they have anything in common or a chance to develop a liking and understanding. It is possible of course that an emotional relatedness may evolve later on. But more often than not it does not do so because usually the initial rush itself is a sign of their being too inhibited to develop a good human relationship.
— Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
Relationships are built in the silences.
— Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
I will stand beside you through all of this,' she said when she could finally speak. “And welcome you home with gladness when it’s over, and you return triumphant.
— Grace Draven, Eidolon
Manage your relationships. Great relationships may not be profitable, but bad ones always result in losses.
— Tarun Sharma
Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" without feeling that they sound strange, never simply hear them and let them go. When I stop to examine them, though, the words seem hollow, seem to rattle at my feet like empty cans.
— Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
In every relationship, you can always see the ego of the other, but you cannot see your own – and the other one goes on seeing your ego.
— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, When the Shoe Fits: Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu
A man of wisdom always looks at every problem from the other’s point of view also. You cannot be wise if you have only one point of view. Sometimes try to stand in others’ shoes and just look from there.
— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, When the Shoe Fits: Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu
A man of wisdom always looks at every problem from the other’s point of view also. You cannot be wise if you have only one point of view. Sometimes try to stand in others’ shoes and just look from there. And if you can understand the other, you will be able to understand yourself more. The other always sees that you are an egoist. You never see it, you are blind to yourself.
— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, When the Shoe Fits: Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu
Most fights originate as a consequence of blaming others for one's own emotional issues. Assuming responsibility for these emotions will most likely make the relationship a healthy and balanced one. Boundaries help foster the wellbeing of one's mental health and self-esteem.
— German Muhlenberg, Seduction Simplified: Full version: How to Create Powerful Self Confidence Habits to Change Your Life with women
S: But Chris, I think his embarrassment isn't in relation to you or me but to himself. What can he do?C: I hate being thrown into such a physical state.S: Isn't that experiencing life to the hilt?C: No, it's just a dumb infatuation. I'm so ashamed.S: But even if his silence hurts you, isn't that what attracted you to him? The fact that he was inaccessible. So, I think there is a contradiction there, at least nothing to feel ashamed of -.
— Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
I thought I had lowered my standards pretty much, when I decided that any woman would be good for me as long as she respects me. It didn't took me long to realize that would never happen. I was being naive about the real state of the world. It's not that one shouldn't have low standards, or high, or medium, but that most people are such a disgusting representation of themselves, that they can't stop themselves being like this until they die. And maybe they do appreciate what they had when they lose it, but they quickly forget about it when getting it back. Forgiving people that apologize too often has been another naive behavior of mine.
— Robin Sacredfire
If there’s anything I’ve learned from polyamory, it’s that the quickest way to destroy a relationship is to try to make it into something it’s not, to force it into a box that it doesn’t really fit in, and to slap labels on something and assume that those labels give the relationship value. No, no, and no. What you end up with is damaged goods in a mislabeled package that end up absolutely where you didn’t want to send the damn thing in the first place.
— Page  Turner, Poly Land: My Brutally Honest Adventures in Polyamory
We really don’t need much to live comfortably, rest is all extra baggage which we collect because of immature feelings, emotional attachments and so on… same goes with our relationships we hang on to toxic relationships because of our fears and personal reasons. Letting go will bring much needed light and peace. I know it is easier said than done, but if we make conscious efforts, we sure can.
— Latika Teotia
She was home, the passage walls, memorabilia of Ben's life, past and present, welcomed her like a doting grandmother.
— Mala Naidoo, Across Time and Space
Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.
— Marty Rubin
Someone could save your life without you ever knowing it. It happened more than most people realized.
— J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions
Sometimes the enemy walks beside you, holds your hand and kisses your pretty lips.
— Melody  Lee
Your eyes were the bait luring me into your world. Your kiss was the trap door keeping me prisoner there.
— Melody  Lee
[Being rejected] hurt, 'cause what turned me on in sex was believing that they knew me, that I'd found somebody to understand.
— Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
Don't say it doesn't make sense then tell me you feel your spine curve and chill humps rise all over your skin. That's all the sense it needs to make. That's what it's supposed to do. That's poetry darling; you feel it in your noes, it chills your skin-- poetry speaks to your soul, it burns within.
— Melody  Lee
They told me to pay attention to my heart; that it would lead me to my purpose, my passion. So I did, I listened closely to the beat of my heart and it always brought me back to you.
— Melody  Lee