#relationships

"Crawling Backwards [10w] Crawling backwards is the hardwired wisdom of crabs and survivors."

"A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence."

"When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?"

"Travel [10w] The difference between a traveler and vacationer is one arrives."

"You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out."

"Friendship is not by force but by choice.You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody."

"Trying to fall out of love is like trying to climb a mountain. Blindfolded, on crutches, naked in a hail storm."

"He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them."

"I had a dream about you. You were lost in a daydream, when I walked in and you began screaming. But I know that could never actually happen. In real life I only enter people’s nightmares."

"Frivolous Gossip and Poetry It's just so much frivolous gossip to dwell upon the moral merits of a poet;what should only concern the reader is the merit of his words.Leave moral judgments to the preachers and aesthetic judgments to the critical readers."

"Each piece of glass is another piece of myself I gave to him. It's too bad I didn't keep any pieces for myself."

"Bespeckled Heroes [10w] Great heroes in 100 years become statues speckled with birdshit."

"I’m half chameleon, half camouflage, and wholly in love with you, though you’d never be able to see it."

"I don’t like my circle of friends, so I’m changing them to a square. Love shapes our lives, so why not shape who we love?"

"People tell me I look like my father. I've never seen my dad, so does that mean I look invisible?"

"Depression Busy people have neither the time nor the swimming skills to take a divein a pool of depression."

"Based on the questions we both answered, we’re a 0% love match. That means we’re 100% compatible, once I enlighten her to the correct perspective on life."

"Why be alone when we can be together babyYou can make my life worthwhileAnd I can make you start to smile"

"The Refugee I packed my car with cash and valuablesand headed for the border.At the first checkpoint they took my cash.At the second they took my valuables.At the border they took my car and my shoes.I walked barefoot the last 100 feet to freedom,and was greeted with open arms by a person I didn't recognize.In time I discovered that strangerwas the me they could not take from me."

"Murder [10w] Two coats of paint doen't get rid of a ghost."