Quotes About Relationships

Love is an intervention. Why do we not choose it?" (205)

Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.

The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it's the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.

I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence.

I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No-one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love belongs to itself, deaf to pleading and unmoved by violence. Love is not something you can negotiate. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. ... When I say 'I will be true to you' I must mean it in spite of the formalities, instead of the formalities.

It is never too late to learn to love. But it is frightening.

How long before the shouting starts? How long before the tears and the accusations and the pain? That specific stone n the stomach pain when you lose something you haven't got round to valuing? Why is the measure of love loss?

Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.

I want you to come to me without a past. Those lines you've learned, forget them. Forget that you've been here before in other bedrooms in other places. Come to me new. Never say you love me until that day when you have proved it.

I have written about love obsessively, forensically, and I know/knew it as the highest value. I loved God of course, in the early days, and God loved me. That was something. And I loved animals and nature. And poetry. People were the problem. How do you love another person? How do you trust another person to love you?

I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

I am sure that if we can find reconciliation with our past – whether parents, partners or friends – we should try and do that. It won't be perfect, it will be a compromise . . . but it might mean acceptance and, the big word, forgiveness.

He did not say so, but the words behind the words told me that he would rather have launched me into a good marriage than watch me row against the tide at my own work. It remains that a woman with an incomplete emotional life has herself to blame, while a man with no time for his heart just needs a wife.

Women are just planets that attract the wrong species.

As he turned inwards she turned outwards, but while he wore his intensity like a garment, she slept in hers.

He liked me because I am short. I flatter myself. He did not dislike me. He liked no one except Josephine and he liked her the way he liked chicken.

Bridges join but they also separate.

All I am saying is that love is not exclusively human.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it."' That's from the Song of Solomon. We sing what we know.

Mrs. Winterson did not have a soothing personality. Ask for reassurance and it would never come. I never asked her if she loved me. She loved me on those days when she was able to love. I really believe that is the best she could do.

I am always wondering about love.

Being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligations but being able to love.