Quotes About Relationships

C'est cela l'amour, non? Avouer là où l'on hésite, là où on faiblit.

I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.

Where I come from, said Archie, a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her. Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean, said Samad tersely, that it is a good idea.

Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?

He had her in his heart, but not always in his mind.

He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.

You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.

Archie's marriage felt like buying a pair of shoes, taking them home, and finding they don't fit.

Like most children, theirs was a relation based on verbs, not nouns.

Girls either wanted him or wanted to improve him, but most often a combination of the two. They wanted to improve him until he justified the amount they wanted him.

Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what repels their daughters, forcing them to turn away. Mothers are left stranded, madly holding a lump of London clay, some grass, some white tubers, a dandelion, a fat worm passing the world through itself.

all the dutiful grandchildren and great-grandchildren lingering over deathbeds with digital recorders, or else mechanically pursuing their ancestors through the online genealogy sites at three in the morning, so very eager to reconstitute the lives and thoughts of dead and soon-to-dead men, though they may regularly screen the phone calls of their own mothers. I am of that generation. I will do anything for my family except see them.

I wanted to love and to be loved.

Secondo l'esperienza di Archie, qualunque cosa dotata di memoria lunga mantiene i rancori, e non va per niente bene tenere animaletti domestici con ragioni di rancore (quella volta mi hai dato il cibo sbagliato, quell'altra mi hai fatto il bagno).

Yes, sometimes it's the strangers that sustain you.

It's a question of what love gives you the right to do.

Sometimes in this life you have to take risks on other people.

She was the kind of person who never gave you enough time to miss her.

Porque el divorcio es eso: quitarle cosas que no ya no necesita a una persona a la que ya no quieres.

oh, he loves her; just as the English loved India and Africa and Ireland; it is the love that is the problem, people treat their lovers badly)

Back then, we were all still willing to take the "risk," if "risk" is the right word to describe entering into the lives of others, not merely in symbol but in reality.

E in passato, si chiese Archie, la gente imbrogliava di meno? Era piu' onesta, lasciava la porta di casa aperta, affidava i figli ai vicini, faceva visite agli amici, aveva il conto aperto con il macellaio?

am so angry at you right now.

Two people creating the time of their own lives, protected somehow by love, not ignorant of history but not deformed by it, either.