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Quotes About Relationship

I never saw Sauveterre again and it was to be many years before I even heard his name, but in the end I found myself adopting his little boy, so small is the world, so strange is fate.
~ Nancy Mitford
Fears about his fidelity were ridiculous, according to Henry 'There never was a purer...affection than what I profess for you,' he wrote. He was 'indifferent indeed to all the rest of your sex.
~ Nancy Rubin Stuart
These two trends—the decline of communal institutions and the expansion of corporate brands in our culture—have had an inverse, seesaw-like relationship to one another over the decades: as the influence of those institutions that provided us with that essential sense of belonging went down, the power of commercial brands went up.
~ Naomi Klein
there is a direct and compelling relationship between the dominance of the values that are intimately tied to triumphant capitalism and the presence of anti-environment views and behaviors.
~ Naomi Klein
I had forgotten to fear him, from too much time spent too close.
~ Naomi Novik
Also I hadn't lost an ounce of the passionate desire to beat him over the head with a large stick, and surely that was a sign of true love.
~ Naomi Novik
I glared down. Do you want me to go? His hands tightened on my arms. He didn't look me in the face. For a moment he didn't speak. Then harshly he said, No.
~ Naomi Novik
No, my dear," he said at last, softly, knowing it was only the truth. "I would rather have you than any ship in the Navy.
~ Naomi Novik
I don't have a very good idea of how people behave with their friends normally because I've never had one before. But, on the bright side, Orion hadn't either, so he didn't know any more than I did. So for lack of a better idea, we just went on being rude to each other, which was easy enough for me and a refreshing and new experience for him, in both directions.
~ Naomi Novik
I hadn't any business agreeing to be with someone who told me in all sincerity that I was his only hope of happiness in the world, at least not until he'd sorted his own head out and diversified.
~ Naomi Novik
I did not really need Magretta to tell me that love had caught my father like an unwilling fish, and having slipped the hook he had been glad to forget he had ever been on it in the first place.
~ Naomi Novik
You don't actually want to date me, do you? I-- he looked baffled and desperate and then said, If you-- I don't--it's up to you!
~ Naomi Novik
He just stopped under one particularly laden tree and earnestly began spreading out a ragged blanket for our picnic, while I stood staring down at him, trying to decide if he was litally insane, and whether I liked him enough to pretend he wasn't. I had already liked him enough to drink the horrible tea-stained hot water he'd brought me, so the answer to that was almost certainly yes, but I wasn't sure I liked him enough to picnic in the gym with him.
~ Naomi Novik
I'm glad you and Chloe have become friends," in an alarmingly hopeful way that was very clearly only one unfortunate literature assignment away from turning into come live with me and be my love, optionally etched onto metal with little hearts around it.
~ Naomi Novik
I couldn't help knowing she would have told me off for giving him the least encouragement, in the strongest terms possible for her, and also that she'd be absolutely right: I hadn't any business agreeing to be with someone who told me in all sincerity that I was his only hope of happiness in the world, at least not until he'd sorted his own head out and diversified.
~ Naomi Novik
as if truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn't come and listen.
~ Naomi Novik
if truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn't come and listen.
~ Naomi Novik
Avevo la sensazione che in realtà L'evocazione non fosse fatta per essere lanciata da soli,come se la verità non significasse nulla senza qualcuno con cui condividerla;potevi gridarla al vento per sempre, dedicarvi una vita intera,se nessuno veniva ad ascoltare.
~ Naomi Novik
We hebben helemaal geen verkering!' Aadhya sloeg theatraal haar ogen ten hemel. 'Terwijl jullie nog maar twee maanden doen wat het ook is dat jullie doen en wat geen verkering mag heten, maar daar in de ogen van alle andere sprekend op lijkt.
~ Naomi Novik
But as if I'd told myself at the same time as him, I realized that was exactly what I was after. I wanted Sarkan. I wanted him to look up from among his heaped books and snap at me at the disorder I'd created. I wanted to know what he was doing, if the Wood had struck back. I wanted him to tell me how I could persuade the king to let Kasia go.
~ Naomi Novik
I wanted and didn't want his help. I wanted to stay angry at him a while longer, but I wanted the connection more; I wanted to touch him, wanted the brilliant crisp bite of his magic in my hands. I kept my head down and kept working.
~ Naomi Novik
I don't know if my father can hear me. But it is important to pretend he can./ My sanity rests in that. The man he was can hear the daughter I am.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
The truth was, he had no girlfriend. Everyone was his girlfriend. This was his theory--float and drift. Be in love with everyone you see. The heart is a bucket without a lid. Maybe he had read it in a play. But it seemed to work.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
The minute she heard him, she wished they could talk forever.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye