Quotes About Relationships

maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.

When there is no love, not only the life of the people becomes sterile but the life of cities.

Hablar del matrimonio como de una solución la dejaba reducida a una mercancía a la que había que dar salida a cualquier precio.

Love strengthens the fabric of memory.

We were fourteen, fifteen years old, and already knew the importance of silence in love.

Angelina, ¿qué no sabes que el amor no puede formarse a través de la compasión»

Hay dos clases de amistad, una pasajera como un cometa y otra que dura toda la vida como las estrellas.

but she won't let him finish his scolding; she'll throw her arms of water around his neck; she will show him her necklaces of small, blue shells, so tender they resemble children's eyelids as they sleep, and of hard shells that look like the teeth of killer fish. Or she'll tell him that god has made nature not only to look upon but also so that we may live in her, and that each person has his own wave, and won't he please choose his.

Me sentiré muchísimo menos extranjera contigo que en cualquier otra tierra.

En los únicos momentos en que me llevo bien con mis papás es cuando vamos al cine, porque entonces nadie habla. • Victoria Garfias Madrigal, de la Facultad de Ingeniería de la UNAM

it does not occur to brigitte to say leave me in peace. brigitte knows, there are so many woman who would like to turn a stranger's, her, brigitte's future into one of their own. so brigitte prefers to turn herself into an extension of heinz's limbs, into a part of heinz's body.

Love has a thousand doors. But one-sided love isn't a door, it's a delusion.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

Pour retrouver l'amour, il faut libérer du temps psychique et du temps de disponibilité. Il faut s'ennuyer un peu.

I learned many interesting things from Delia: for example, that she and Gulya had both married alcoholics, but Delia's alcoholic had taken all her money, whereas Gulya had managed her alcoholic well and taken all his money.

Beautiful people lived in a different world, had different relations with people. From the beginning they were raised for love.

I learned a lot from that, like how much it hurt to see how other people described you, and how things that you said about another person, especially your parents, seemed neutral when addressed to a third party, but lethal when you thought about your parents reading it.

For dinner she made a soup called "boy-catching soup" and a cake called "mother-in-law cake." These two dishes seemed to sum up a whole worldview of entrapment and placation.

I learned many interesting things from Delia: for example, that she and Gulya had both married alcoholics, but Delia's alcoholic had taken all her money, whereas Gulya had managed her alcoholic well and taken all his money.

I'm not happy," Rósza said. "Why not?" "I don't know." "Are you worried about school?" "No." "Then why?" "Because I'm alone." I felt a wave of exasperation and despair. Was that what all of life was going to be like - you had to be sad when you didn't have a boyfriend?

I kept looking around the bleachers at the audience, middle-aged people in practical clothes. Every single one of them cared about love, but how much? A lot, or only a little bit? The opera went on for a long time. Eventually the two youngest people onstage got married, so we could all go home.

Sometimes I think there could be two kinds of love. There could be one rare kind that just naturally exists between certain people. Then there's the more common kind that is constructed.

Sometimes I think there could be two kinds of love. There could be one rare kind that just naturally exists between people. Then there's the more common kind that's constructed.

wasn't that itself the miracle—that love really was an obscure and unfathomable connection between individuals, and not an economic contest where everyone was matched up according to how quantifiably lovable they were?