Quotes About Relationships

In those days she had been a sly-eyed little party, much younger than the crowd which had grown up with Minnie, but she had strung along with them and, when Jake Bernadine's first wife had given up in despair, had married and mothered him, enjoyed his strange pictures, and had children by him. Just

One does not dislike the half of everything. You bore me, you young people, when you talk about one sex or the other, as if they were separate things. There is only one human entity and that is a man and a woman. The man is the silhouette, the woman is the detail. The one often spoils or makes the other. But apart they are so much material. Don't be a fool.

Women are terribly shocking to men, my dear. Don't understand them. Like them. It saves such a lot of hurting one way and the other.

A pale, thin, small woman, perfectly coiffed, perfectly dressed, without makeup, without a single piece of jewelry, ascetic (viperous?) (her heart sullied by the world's contagion?) stands beside Eduardo, making him gigantic: she smiles mechanically.

Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.

What about the world do you most love? The fact that I'm not here by myself. -from interview by Jeff Vandermeer in Clarkesworld magazine

Clifford, I was just saying how there aren't good words for family, for step-half-siblings? How complex family is," Liliana said in her fragile voice. "That's true," Clifford said. "Complicated. Messy. Endless fun." He smiled slightly and looked around the room with an expression I liked-as if the world was enormously absurd, and he sort of enjoyed it and hated it at the same time.

Dating is dumb. Basically you're making false judgments based on false exteriors. Oh, sure my superficial self likes your superficial self, but the real me likes your roommate.

loves was about the people who loved you

Espaniole later said he had hoped the Mohaves' good treatment of Olive would encourage the whites, in turn, to treat the Mohaves well.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.

You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.

Adam," said Mrs. Hoops, as if it took a great deal of courage to bring out the words. "Mamma cannot live in the same house with dogs.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...

El amor es un castigo. Somos castigados por no haber podido quedarnos solos.

That mysterious play which extends from love of a body to a love of an entire person has seemed to me noble enough to consecrate to it one part of my life.

I will bring you a whole person and you will bring me a whole person and we will have us twice as much of love and everything.

We've all been there, done stupid things for love.

Eternity is a long time and it doesn't always work out that way," Jareth says, a bit bitterly. "It's worse to love someone and then lose them, then to never love at all.