Quotes About Relationships

In the Torah, the Hebrew 'to know', often used in a sexual context, is not about facts but about connections. Knowledge, not as accumulation but as charge and discharge.

Perhaps it is worse when love has flowed freely to find it one day dammed.

Mrs Ratlow was a widow, and she was head of English, but she still did all the cooking and cleaning for her two sons, and she never took holidays because she said -- and I will never forget it -- When a woman alone is no longer of any interest to the opposite sex, she is only visible where she has some purpose.

Where did love begin? What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and weary, dragging home food, arms cut and scarred, that you saw yellow flowers and, not knowing what you did, picked them because I love you?

I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it.

A woman who slaves for a man does not have a marriage; she has a master.

Take two people. Slice lengthways. Boil with the lid on. Add a marriage, a past, another woman. Sugar to taste. Pass through a chance meeting. Lubricate sparingly. Serve on a bed of – or is it in a bed of –? Use fresh and top with raw emotion.

U]nhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. He or she has to learn to forgive him or herself.

She had navigated her parents' hostile waters with a child's discretion, learning to keep from one the confessions of the other. Learning to hide love.

I love you. The three most difficult words in the world. But what else can I say?

If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession.

My passion for her showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love. The one is about you, the other about someone else

When my mother heard about this, she was furious, and she crossed Nellie off her prayer list. My dad put her on his instead, so she didn't miss out.

Neither parent spoke. Milo stood between them like a lighthouse between the rocks and the shipwreck.

Didn't they like you? Didn't they, like you, need a heart that was a book with no last page? Turn the leaves.

To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.

I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.

If there is such a thing as spiritual adultery, my mother was a whore.

Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame?

We were patient enough to count the hairs on each other's heads, too impatient to get undressed. Neither of us had the upper hand, we wore matching wounds.

Be with someone you don't want to be without.

That's why he hates him so much. He disappointed him. Passion does not take disappointment well. What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

When you dig under the surface, past the necessities, men and women don't mix.

I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder.