the intimacy of adapting each other's vocabulary, tones and typings
When you talk about people you like, or rather when you talk about that thing that happens between you —you have to transform a very complex impression into a string of words. Some relationships can easily be compressed into a compelling string of words. This is usually because they conform to some sort of trope of how romance should look. In my ex... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Looking for Alice
There’s a real tension in love — at the beginning of love, particularly — between the desire to be honest about who one is and the desire to win the affection of another person. Of course, ideally, we can both be honest and loved for being honest. That’s the dream.
Maria Popova • Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work
The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light.
Cheryl Strayed • Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
provide? He now viewed a successful relationship as one in which both people had recognized the best of what the other person had to offer and had chosen to value it as well.
Hanya Yanagihara • A Little Life: A Novel
it had seemed to him the ideal expression of an adult relationship, to have someone with whom you could discuss the mechanics of a shared existence.