violentwavesofemotion:

“Because I love you. Because when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone—you remember?—you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.”

— Albert Camus, tr. by David Hapgood, from “The First Man,” c. 1994

lickerishdreams:

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them and their response is “you’re safe with me” - that’s intimacy.”

— The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid

(Source: jenshraders)

annaraksta:

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me”

— “If We Were Villains” M. L. Rio

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violentwavesofemotion:

“I know about love the way the fields know about light, the way the forest shelters,”

— Rabia of Basra, tr. by Daniel Ladinsky from “The Way the Forest Shelters,”

funneeb:

In order to make a relationship last, you really have to flow with a person as they change. Give them space. My friend always told me about his grandfather who was with his wife for 60 years before she passed. His grandfather said that through all that time, his wife changed so much it felt like he had been with 8 different people by the end. But he said the secret to making it last was that through all those changes, he never suffocated his wife with his own idea of who he expected her to be. Rather he loved, fully, every new woman she became.