Quotes About Relationships

They only make you so happy when they are about to take something from you

Mariam wondered how so many women could suffer the same miserable luck, to have married, all of them, such dreadful men.

No one snaps our composure quite like someone we love.

She will not plant the seed in their mind, that a parent is capable of abandoning her children, of saying to them You are not enough. For Pari, the children and Eric have always been enough. They always will be.

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

she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother.

It was the way Nana uttered the word - not so much saying it as spitting it at her - that made Mariam feel the full sting of it.

I promised myself that I would talk to her before the summer was over, but schools reopened, the leaves reddened, yellowed, and fell, the rains of winter swept in and wakened Baba's joints, baby leaves sprouted once more, and I still hadn't had the heart, the dil, to even look her in the eye.

Seseorang yang sebelumnya menyemir sepatumu, tidak mungkin menjadi 'saudara perempuanmu' keesokan harinya.

And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last.

Love is a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

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.

they rarely look at Baba - the teenagers - and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.

People, she believed now, shouldn't be allowed to have new children if they'd already given away all their love to their old ones.

Dia lebih memilih orang lain daripada kamu. Dia lebih memilih orang lain daripada kamu - Amir

Ar fi trebuit sa fiu mai draguta cu ea. Asta e un lucru pe care in mod sigur nicio persoana nu il va regreta niciodata. Nu-ti vei spune niciodata la batranete: A, imi doresc sa nu fi fost draguta cu acel om. Nu vei gandi niciodata asa.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman.

Men always failed Maman in the end. They forever fell disastrously short of whatever ideal she held them up to. What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits and the flinging of cooking utensils and collapse. High drama. Maman was incapable of either starting or ending a relationship without excess.

Mammy was now the curator of their lives' museum and she, Laila, a mere visitor.

This fragile, trembling little glimpse of how it could have been between us. All it will beget is regret, I tell myself, and what good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.

Mammy was soon asleep, leaving Laila with dueling emotions: reassured that Mammy meant to live on, stung that she was not the reason. She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.

Potevo solo concludere che per alcune persone, in particolare per le donne, il matrimonio, anche infelice come questo, può costituire una fuga da un'infelicità ancora più grande.

All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman

And the Mountains Echoed BY KHALED HOSSEINI