"We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has"

-- Deborah Tannen

#Looks Quotes #Language Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she's getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it's working.”

Source : "Justin Timberlake: Jessica Biel Is ‘Really, Really, Really Special And Really, Really Hot!’". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2012.
“Love's absence ailed me. I could not imagine loving my husband. He was a superior and I did not know how to love and be subservient together. Nor had he ever thought of me as a human being, let alone a woman. For no reason had he ever softened towards me, I had stirred him that little.”

Source : Tehmina Durrani (1998). “Blasphemy: A Novel”, p.149, Penguin Books India
“I'm tryin' to think, but nothin' happens!”
“If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.”
“But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.”
“Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either climax or conclusion.”
“Each the others world entire.”
“One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.”

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