Quotes About Relationship

Sometimes you were here all day long and you read or you opened the window or you cooked something - and I watched you - and you never said anything - and you looked at me with such eyes, as though you did not see me. All day, while I worked to make this room for you.

how I stood, with my love and my ingenuity, between him and the dark.

His body, which I had come to know so well, glowed in the light and changed and thickened the air between us. Then something opened in my brain, a secret, noiseless door swung open, frightening me: it had not occurred to me until that instant that, in fleeing from his body, I confirmed and perpetuated his body's power over me. Now, as though I had been branded, his body was burned into my mind, into my dreams.

I've known him all my life and I hope I always know him.

For a woman,' she said, 'I think a man is always a stranger. And there's something awful about being at the mercy of a stranger.

Fighting will not make you stay. In French, we have what is called une séparation de corps—not a divorce, you understand, just a separation. Well. We will separate. But I know you belong with me. I believe, I must believe—that you will come back.

It's a miracle to realize that somebody loves you:

You want to leave Giovanni because he makes you stink. You want to despise Giovanni because he is not afraid of the stink of love. You want to kill him in the name of all your lying little moralities. And you—you are immoral. You are, by far, the most immoral man I have met in all my life. Look, look what you have done to me. Do you think you could have done this if I did not love you? Is this what you should do to love?

One day, when you're happy, try to forgive me.

Giovanni," I said, helplessly, "be careful. Please be careful." He gave me an ironical smile. "Thank you," he said. "You should have given me that advice the night we met.

I have never reached you, said Giovanni. You have never really been here.

Giovanni', I said, helplessly, 'be careful. Please be careful'. He gave me an ironical smile. 'Thank you', he said, 'You should have given me that advice the night we met

His touch, which should have raised her, lifted her roughly only to throw her down hard; whenever he touched her, she became blacker and dirtier than ever; the loneliest place under heaven was in Paul's arms.

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 acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.

no man ever willingly marries his mistress.

and wife are two windows, each letting light into a home, light that seamlessly blends, brightening and sanctifying the marriage

You got somebody in your corner, you lucky ... and blessed. And when you get that, you gotta know it, stand by it, and treat it with care. To nurture it. To build on it.

You don't build a bond without being present.

I want to burn down the distance between us>

if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone?

Stay near to me and I'll Stay near to you – As near as you are dear to me will do.

It's been great getting better with you.