Quotes About Relationships

And the uncles, the aunts, the cousins, the nieces, the nephews, that lived in those walls, the gibbering pack of tree apes that said nothing, nothing, nothing and said it loud, loud, loud.

Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.

Nimeni nu mai are timp ?i pentru ceilal?i.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at least one which makes the heart run over.

Look for the little loves. Find and shape the little bitternesses.

We cannot tell the precise moment when a friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at least one which makes the heart run over.

And just holding her hand would be good. Can you understand that? Do you know that holding someone's hand can be `the' thing? Such a thing that your hands move while not moving. You can remember a thing like that, rather than any other thing about a night, all your life. Just holding hands can mean more, I believe it. When everything is repeated, and over, and familiar, it's the first things rather than the last that count.

Those are not my friends, the ones who got me to tear the strips apart and so tear my own life down the middle; they are my enemies.

Hay solo dos cosas con las que uno se puede acostar: Una persona y un libro

Mildred driving a hundred miles an hour across town, he shouting at her and she shouting back and both trying to hear what was said, but hearing only the scream of the car. At least keep it down to the minimum! he yelled. What? she cried. Keep it down to fifty-five, the minimum he shouted. The what? she shrieked. Speed! he shouted. And she pushed it up to one hundred and five miles and tore the breath from his mouth.

We salt our lives with other people's sins.

The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young. She

All of us improbable to one another because we are not present to one another

We gotta stand still! Stay the age we are. Grow up? Hah! All you do then is marry someone who screams at you!

When you strip all the clothes away and the doodads, you have two human beings who were either happy or unhappy

When you strip all the clothes away and the doodads, you have two human beings who were either happy or unhappy together, and we have no complaints.

No front porches. My uncle says there used to be front porches. And people sat there sometimes at night, talking when they wanted to talk, rocking, and not talking when they didn't want to talk.

You can only go with loves in this life.

Look," he tried, "put two men in a rail car, one a soldier, the other a farmer. One talks war, the other wheat; and bore each other to sleep. But let one spell long-distance running, and if the other once ran the mile, why, those men will run all night like boys, sparking a friendship up from memory. So, all men have one business in common: women, and can talk that till sunrise and beyond. Hell.

Nadie tiene ya tiempo para nadie.

But Clarisse's favorite subject wasn't herself. It was everyone else, and me. She was the first person in a good many years I've really liked. She was the first person I can remember who looked straight at me as if I counted.

Irritations and angers aside, what about loves? What do you love most in the world? The big and little things, I mean.

Funny, how funny, not to remember where or when you met your husband or wife.