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.
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Fall in love with someone who’s comfortable with your silence. Find someone who doesn’t need your words to know it’s time to kiss you.
Clairabelle Ann
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Her ancient gestures, her perfume, the infinite intimacy of her rage,
Christina Peri-Rossi, tr. by Carol Thickstunt, from “The Bacchante,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
Silence speaks and I pause to listen to what it says, it speaks loudly in harsh tones of indifference, echoes in my mind and born are a thousand questions that ask why.
e.v.e. (Your silence) (via heartofmuse)
Undress my soul not my body. Don’t whisper sweet nothing’s in my ear, talk to me about the world. Don’t take me to your bedroom take me on an outdoor adventure. Don’t make me a one night stand, make me the one you can’t stand to be without for even one night.
Don’t lust me, love me. (via chaosandcatastrophe)
My body wasn’t made to be loved on occasion.
it was made to be loved every night, with warm hands.
Everyday, in dedication,
the same way
that the sun bows in dedication to the earth every night,
and rises in love every morning.
KeyWrites (via busyreadingerotica)
If you love and get hurt, love more.
If you love more and hurt more, love even more.
If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more…
William Shakespeare (via feellng)
I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something directed my way by members of the opposite sex. For want of a better word, call it magnetism. Like it or not, it’s a kind of power that snares people and reels them in.
Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun (via poetic-iridescence)
You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
Marquis de Sade (via quotes-shape-us)
