ᦔꪖꪀꪀꪗ > ᦔꪖꪀꪀꪗ's Quotes

“My body knows. Of course physical sensations, just like rage, have purpose. They are signals, indicators, meant to lead us to truths. But I don't listen, for fear of what they might reveal.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“It made me see, too, that I had never really loved the men I'd dated and idealized in my twenties. I had not been invested in helping them grow, or in seeing the whole of who they were, because I was more interested in how I looked in their perception of me. It was a half-hearted version of love, rooted in ego.”
― Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

“Apples and oranges, my therapist tells me. What if you're not the same as other women, what if you're an entirely different fruit? she asks gently. But everyone has a favorite fruit, I tell her. I feel a tear run down my cheek. Everyone prefers one over the other. That is how the world works; everything is ranked. One is always better than the other.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“Romance is about finding ways to show someone they are appreciated.”
― Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

“The search for any kind of love, I now believe, is a continual process of looking in and out. Looking inwards to understand yourself, to be curious about your needs and desires and gifts and flaws, to develop generosity and self-compassion. Then looking outwards to use the power those things give you to love other people, and the life you are living too. What I had learnt is that you don’t really find love at all; you create it, by understanding that you are part of something bigger. A small speck of colour vital to a picture of life.”
― Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

“We learn to keep our jagged bits inside for fear of appearing unattractive. I always thought there was a part of your messiness you saved for yourself, that no one else would ever see. It’s enormously humbling to realize how many times and ways my partner will pierce that. I can pretend I have all sorts of things together, but when I am at my most broken, he is still the person I turn to.”
― Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

“I felt a sense of urgency to be with him. I knew in that moment that the twenty years I've spent with him have gone by more quickly than two years would have with the wrong person.”
― Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

“I'm of the firm belief that our bodies often know things before our minds are ready to process them, and, in that way, sex becomes a kind of subconscious language, a way to make sense of a part of you that can't be put into words, much like art or music.”
― Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

“I read once that women are more likely than men to cry when they are angry. I know that women cry out of shame. We are afraid of our anger, embarrassed by the way that it transforms us. We cry to quell what we feel, even when it's trying to tell us something, even when it has every right to exist.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“Lines were never clear between us. The house didn’t help: it was a place with no boundaries. Children who grow up in homes like mine, just them and their parents with no separation, physically or emotionally, become experts in a very particular type of seeing. We learn to see things that are hidden, and things that aren’t there at all. We become particularly sensitive to the moods and emotions of others. We are nimble and excellent at shape-shifting. We oscillate between feeling special and feeling alone. We feel simultaneously capable of both saving and destroying those we love.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“Now I
realize that what these answers point to is that, although
you have to work at a relationship, you shouldn’t have to
work at convincing someone to love you. Either they do or
they don’t. The loving and being-loved part should be easy.”
― Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

“I got a can of spray paint and wrote SELF-RESPECT on the door. Let Cupid try and get past that one.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there’s nothing there.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body