Quotes About Relationships

If I were valuable to anyone, I would not be allowed to live alone.

It is strange to think of a goddess needing friends." "All creatures that are not mad need them.

Will you bear my child?" he asked me. I laughed at him. "No, never and never.

I did not lie dreaming of him during the days, I did not speak his name into my pillow. He was no husband, scarcely even a friend. He was a poison snake, and I was another, and on such terms we pleased ourselves.

What do you have to say to me? You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.

Two children he had had, and he had not seen either clearly. But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.

I sifted and resifted my memories of Aeëtes, all those hours we had leaned against each other. That old sickening feeling returned: that every moment of my life I had been a fool.

I did not see the worst of him. Even at his best he was not an easy man. But he was a friend to me in a time when I needed one." "It is strange to think of a goddess needing friends." "All creatures that are not mad need them.

The beginning of hope. We have given each other wounds, but they are not mortal.

How is Paphos, my love?" "Fine," he said. Just that ugly, nothing word.

I fled so she would not see my tears and wear them as another of her trophies.

She thought that she had power to drive a wedge between us, but she had nothing.

A marriage for love, rare as cedars from the East.

you may have what girls you like in the field, but you will bring none home, for only I will hold sway in your halls.

Do you always make beautiful things for those you are angry with?

perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.

I did not see the worst of him. Even at his best he was not an easy man. But he was a friend to me in a time when I needed one.

Perhaps she thought I hated her. She did not know that I almost asked him, a hundred times, to be a little kinder to her. You do not have to humiliate her so thoroughly, I thought. But it was not kindness he lacked; it was interest.

You ask a question that philosophers argue over," Chiron had said. "He is worth more to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?

I had found a way through the endless corridors of his pride and fury.

It's absolutely impossible to talk of any woman to another woman without betraying the absent one. They must have blood! Every word you speak is a betrayal. They're not satisfied otherwise.

There are too many of them in the world lately, the hopeful ladies who married grown-up boy children and soon lost all hope....They are not ardent libbers, yet at the same time they are not looking for some man to take care. God knows they are experts at taking care of themselves. They just want a grown-up man to share their life with, each of them taking care. But there are one hell of a lot more grown-up ladies than grown-up men.

The biggest and most important reason in the world is to be together with someone in a way that makes life a little less bleak and solitary and lonesome. To exchange the I for We. In the biggest sense of the word, it's cold outside. And kindness and affection and gentleness build a nice warm fire inside.

It was a profession that fed on gossip.