“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
– J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
– J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we’re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on–series polygamy–until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Romantic love, I think, requires a degree of physical attraction, but devotion is needed to maintain it as an actual relationship. Physical attraction is a feeling you don’t really have control over, but devotion is something that has to be chosen. So, ideally… I suppose it’s passion combined with the commitment to value someone else completely above oneself.”
– Angela N. Blount, Once Upon A Road Trip
“Strange, that some of us, with quick alternative vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.”
– George Eliot, Middlemarch
“For God’s sake, let’s take the word ‘possess’ and put a brick round its neck and drown it … We can’t possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.”
– Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman’s Honeymoon