Quotes About Relationships

Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.

No matter how much you want to respect someone's freedom (even when you consider it selfish), you still have your own pain, anger, and melancholy to contend with.

Je me demande si la froideur des pères fait l'extrême sensibilité des fils.

I add: It was then that we lost touch, he and I. These last words are articulated with the least possible affect, as if life is just like that sometimes, you spend time together and then lose touch and life goes on—as if there were no breaks from which you never quite recover.

Je voulais juste t'écrire que j'ai été heureux pendant ces mois que nous avons passés ensemble, que je n'ai jamais été aussi heureux, et que je sais déjà que je ne serai plus jamais aussi heureux.

Si la vie m'était laissé, il se pourrait que je te prie de la partager avec moi.

One of my lifelong regrets is that I was not beautiful, and what is more, that I turned for love to those who could not but reject me.

I wonder if it's cold fathers who make the sensitive sons.

I just wanted to write to tell you that I have been happy during these months together, that I have never been so happy and that I already know I will never be so happy again.

J'ajoute : c'est à ce moment-là qu'on s'est perdus de vue, lui et moi. J'articule ces derniers mots sans y mettre le moindre affect, comme si la vie, c'était ça, simplement ça, se fréquenter et se perdre de vue et continuer à vivre, comme s'il n'y avait pas des déchirements, des séparations qui laissent exsangues, des ruptures dont on peine à se remettre, des regrets qui vous poursuivent longtemps après.

Il faudrait avoir des regrets. Croire que j'aurais mieux fait de me rebeller, mais non, je n'y arrive pas. Si c'était à refaire, je ne changerais rien. Avec toi, quelle qu'aurait été la manière, je n'aurais pu échapper à la souffrance, à la pureté éclatante de la souffrance.

Vous vous êtes tant et si mal aimés, tous les deux ». La phrase est venue comme un coup de grâce. Tombée comme un couperet. J'ai entendu le bruit de la lame quand, après sa course brève, elle sectionne les nuques. Tant et si mal aimés. Peut-on viser plus juste ?

C'est un peu comme les êtres au fond, ceux justement que l'on croise durant des années, mais qu'on ne connaît jamais, et qui se révèlent un jour, sous nos yeux, comme jamais on ne les aurait crus capables d'être.

Children wish to be engaged with directly, even when a parent is willing to speak for them.

I'm already a monster!" she shrieked. "No, you're not!" Tom managed to heave himself to his knees. "You're my friend!" he shouted.

When you're there, I sleep lengthwise. And when you're gone, I sleep diagonal in my bed.

Each betrayal begins with trust

My greatest rewards from women have been kisses on the cheek, a whispered thank-you for helping them manage their mothers-in-law, and even an invitation to tea.

But reading the note made me lonely in that kind of way one is lonely in a city of eight million people, when an empty connection is worse than being alone.

the best things in life aren't things...

The giving of love took nothing from others.

Most of my writing has been concerned with understanding between people. Whether of different races, or religions, or even in the same family I tried in my books...to deal with the subject of understanding the other fellow.

Nini Herman believes that the unresolved issues "which are active at the core of the mother-daughter dyad" are, to some extent, what psychologically holds women back and accounts for women's unconscious collusion with patriarchal edicts. I agree. Nini Herman believes that the unexamined mother-daughter relationship is precisely where women are "obstinately marking time" rather than moving toward freedom.

In addition to such mother-in-law violence toward a daughter-in-law, Burbank notes that "women aggress against their co-wives verbally in twenty-nine percent of the societies and physically in eighteen percent of the societies. Sisters-in-law also "aggress against one another in fourteen percent of the societies; mothers-in law and daughters-in-law are an aggressive dyad in twelve percent of the societies