Quotes About Relationships

He tried to think of all the people in his life as chemicals, the uncertainty of mixing them together, the potential for explosions and scarring.

And I knew a secret to caring for someone, had learned it just this moment. You took care of people by not letting them know how badly you wanted your life to be different.

You changed the subject. From what? The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy. You know. Know what? That I only have eyes for you.

J'aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.

Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.

I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work. It's astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks.

People…shouldn't be allowed to have new children if they'd already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn't fair.

Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if she looked into a mirror, she would find the one unfailing conviction of his life looking right back at her.

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything - that is how, it is between people who are each other's first memories

I think he loved us equally, but differently.

And I wrote you. Volumes. Volumes.

In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.

You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person.

Take two Afghans who've never met, put them in a room for ten minutes, and they'll figure out how they're related.

I used to picture us as two leaves, blowing miles apart in the wind yet bound by the deep tangled roots of the tree from which we had both fallen.

What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits.

Their fights didn't so much end as dissipate, like a drop of ink in a bowl of water, with a residual taint that lingered.

You changed the subject. From what? The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy. You know. Know what? That I only have eyes for you. Laila swooned inside. She tried to read his face but was met by a look that was indecipherable: the cheerful, cretinous grin at odds with the narrow, half desperate look in his eyes. A clever look, calculated to fall precisely at the midpoint between mockery and sincerity

For some people, particularly women, marriage-even an unhappy one such as this-is an escape from even greater unhappiness.

You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a littele

In Tariq's grimace, Laila learned that boys differed from girls in this regard. They didn't make a show of friendship. They felt no urge, no need, for this sort of talk... Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.

Love is a damaging mistake, and it's accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.