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Quotes About Relationship

I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a language which sounds like your own but is really totally foreign, knowable only to them.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I will age for you, if it pleases you. I will match you, wrinkle for wrinkle, grey hair for grey hair, crease for crease, wrinkle for wrinkle. You will be so beautiful when you are old.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
What mirrors we are, set to face each other, reflecting desire.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Why should I care about you first kiss,' he said. 'You can kiss anyone you like. But sometimes if you wanted to kiss me, that would be all right, too.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Still, I did love him. He never minded if I wore my pyjamas for a week and didn't brush my hair. That's a good quality to have in a man. Maybe the best a girl could hope for, considering. And, by Jove, he loves that child. Did you know you can fall in love with the way a man loves someone else? Love takes so much effort. You have to get up ever so early in the morning to really love someone properly.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
You come and go, vanish and appear. You miss years that go by for us, and we miss years that go by for you. We never know when we will find you again, or if we will. You meet us out of order, and sometimes I'll be older and sometimes you will be because that's the kind of story we're in. It's all jumbled up on the outside, but it all makes sense in your head. It all flows the right way in your heart.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Is there anything which does not do as you say?" the girl asked archly. He blushed. "You know my cry. I do not know yours," he mumbled, not meeting her gaze.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
he did love her, even if it was beef-love: stupid and tough and overcooked.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Ettekö te... pelkää sutta?" kysyi Syyskuu, joka salaa uskoi voivansa hyvinkin päästä sellaisesta pelosta, jos susi rakastaisi häntä ja vartioisi häntä eikä sotkisi peittoja mutaan.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I'm an extra in your story. Well, you're an extra in mine, boy.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Here's what you have to understand about intergalactic civil wars: they're functionally identical to the knockdown, door-slamming, plate-smashing, wall-penetrating, shriek-sobbing drama of any high-strung couple you've ever met.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
still not entirely amenable to having this conversation that would not stop having him.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
She is my wife and I am her own and you were not invited. Leave us alone.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
And that's how you begin to win over a child. People who share a secret share a heart.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
A ring don't make a bride, that's all.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
like a man in black, she would find all this so much easier. "Ivan, you do not understand us. A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is incomprehensible to outsiders. We look terrible to you, and severe, and you see our blood flying, but what we carry between us is hard-won, and we made it just as we wished it to be, just the color, just the shape.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
In the course of psychotherapy with children, innumerable transactions between child and therapist result in an emotionally corrective, relational healing experience. What happens when therapists respond in the expected way?
~ Cathy A. Malchiodi
We all know how the Cinderella story ends, but trust me, that prince would have been crazy not to choose my sister.
~ Cathy Cassidy
have to wait. We can get married in a few weeks.
~ Cathy Gillen Thacker
Jamey wouldn't be saying goodbye because he would continue to be Reece's social worker and, I hoped (after our chat on the phone), would be seeing more of Reece in the future. It
~ Cathy Glass
Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.
~ Cathy Guisewite
The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.
~ Cathy Guisewite
happiness. All those years with Marc
~ Cathy Kelly