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Quotes About Relationship

She is Creole girl, and she have the sun in her. Tell the truth now. She don't come to your house in this place England they tell me about, she don't come to your beautiful house to beg you to marry with her. No, it's you come all the long way to her house - it's you beg her to marry. And she love you and she give you all she have. Now you say you don't love her and you break her up. What you do with her money, eh?
~ Jean Rhys
She was a monster, but she was my monster.
~ Jeanette Winterson
He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.
~ Jeanette Winterson
One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but thats quite hard to say casually, at the beginning of a relationship. It's not a word people use very often, which confuses me, because there are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, and then being on somebody else's.
~ Jeanette Winterson
August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.
~ Jeanette Winterson
When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.
~ Jeanette Winterson
your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm you play upon me, drumming me taught.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken?
~ Jeanette Winterson
I was angry. Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.
~ Jeanette Winterson
He scarred her arm...but she did not care because she loved him and she knew that love leaves a wound that leaves a scar.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I can hold you up with one hand, but you can balance me on your fingertips.
~ Jeanette Winterson
We were not lovers, we were love.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I had thought about everything carefully before I had agreed to him. I had made every preparation, every calculation, except for those two essentials that could not be calculated; his heart and mine.
~ Jeanette Winterson
A treasure had fallen into our hands and the treasure was each other.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I thought no one was talking to me and the others thought I wasn't talking to them.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I couldn't know her well and yet I did know her well. Not facts and figures, I was endlessly curious about her life, rather a particular trust. That afternoon, it seemed to me I had always been here with Louise, we were familiar.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I've flown about a bit and picked up a few things and I'll give one of them to you for nothing. You don't run out on the woman you love.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Late-night TV and snoring side by side into the millennium. Till death us do part. Anniversary darling? What's wrong with that?
~ Jeanette Winterson
I tried not to marry you because neither of us have a happy-ever-after story written inside us.
~ Jeanette Winterson
It did make me hate them – not all the time – but with the hatred of the helpless; a flaring, subsiding hatred that gradually became the bed of the relationship. A hatred made of coal, and burning low like coal, and fanned up every time there was another crime, another punishment.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I am in love with her; not a fantasy or a myth or a creature of my own making. Her. A person who is not me. I invented Bonaparte as much as he invented himself. My passion for her, even though she could never return it, showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love. The one is about you, the other about someone else.
~ Jeanette Winterson
If I rush at this relationship it's because I fear for it. I fear you have a door I cannot see and that any minute now the door will open and you'll be gone. Then what? (...) You said, 'I'm going to leave.' I thought, Yes, of course you are, you're going back to your shell. I am an idiot. I've done it again and I said I'd never do it again.
~ Jeanette Winterson