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Quotes About Relationships

e ela concluiu que a vinda de Selden, se não provava que ele ainda estava envolvido com Mrs. Dorset, mostrava que ele estava completamente livre a ponto de não temer a proximidade dela.
~ Edith Wharton
As mulheres não são generosas quando o assunto é emprestar dinheiro e a maioria daquelas que a cercavam ou estavam na mesma situação ou não faziam a menor ideia das necessidades que ela passava.
~ Edith Wharton
Ah, don't let us undo what you've done!' she cried. 'I can't go back now to that other way of thinking. I can't love you unless I give you up.
~ Edith Wharton
It seemed to her the diabolical instrument of their estrangement.
~ Edith Wharton
Cuando un hombre amaba a una mujer ésta siempre tenía la edad que él quisiera; y cuando dejaba de amarla se convertía en demasiado vieja para los hechizos o en demasiado joven para la técnica .
~ Edith Wharton
Jamás os pedíais nada el uno al otro, ¿verdad? Y nunca os contabais nada. Os sentabais, os mirabais y adivinabais lo que pasaba por dentro. ¡Un asilo de sordomudos, en definitiva!
~ Edith Wharton
La verdadera soledad consiste en vivir entre toda esa gente encantadora que sólo te pide que finjas!
~ Edith Wharton
I believe it IS a vice, almost, to read such a book as the 'Letters,'" said Mrs. Touchett. "It's the woman's soul, absolutely torn up by the roots — her whole self laid bare; and to a man who evidently didn't care; who couldn't have cared. I don't mean to read another line; it's too much like listening at a keyhole.
~ Edith Wharton
Once or twice, in the first days of his marriage, he had asked himself with a slight shiver what would happen if Susy should begin to bore him. The thing had happened to him with other women as to whom his first emotions had not differed in intensity from those she inspired.
~ Edith Wharton
He'd lived so much of his life for sexual love, which was a filthy thing, really, all that saliva and semen and anal smears, filthy! Much better to live alone and watch TV in bed or talk to Pierre-Georges as he was in his bed and watching the same movie. Both of them spotlessly clean.
~ Edmund White
They all said the way to a man's heart was through his asshole.
~ Edmund White
The Parisians looked at each other constantly but were more curious about each other's shoes than their sexual availability.
~ Edmund White
Love is a source of anxiety until it is a source of boredom; only friendship feeds the spirit.
~ Edmund White
If the baron is a masochist himself, then why would he attract another masochist? I suppose he wants someone cute to attract other sadists.
~ Edmund White
We don't know others. They are an enigma. We can't know them, especially those we are most intimate with, because habit blurs us and hope blinds us to the truth.
~ Edna O'Brien
I had not the heart to tell her that great love stories told of the pain and separateness between men and women.
~ Edna O'Brien
But we want young men. Romance. Love and things, I said, despondently.
~ Edna O'Brien
Although one might seem relatively gregarious, the real self is at the desk," she said. "It is a trial for relationships, for friendships. Every writer dreads losing the connection to the work, the momentum, and to keep it, you can't truly be sociable.
~ Edna O'Brien
That was the thing about America, people always moving on, so that a girl had to snap up a beau as fast as she could.
~ Edna O'Brien
But we want young men. Romance. Love and things,' I said, despondently.
~ Edna O'Brien
We don't know others. They are an enigma. We can't know them, especially those we are most intimate with, because habit blurs us and hope blinds us with truth.
~ Edna O'Brien
He never studied, not a paper, not a textbook . . . the books he reads are the people that come to him
~ Edna O'Brien
Only fools think that men and women love differently. Fools and pedagogues. I tell you, the love of men for women is just as heartbreaking, just as muddled, just as bewildering, and in the end, just as unfinished.
~ Edna O'Brien
The punch was getting to them, their faces redder and small tiffs between couples
~ Edna O'Brien