Quotes About Relationship

So they soon forgot their pride and interchanged kindnesses without stopping to think which was the greater.

How well we pull together, don't we? said Amy, who objected to silence just then. So well that I wish we might always pull in the same boat. Will you, Amy? very tenderly. Yes, Laurie, very low.

Amo-te desde que te conheço, Jo; não o consigo evitar, tens sido tão boa para mim. Tentei demonstrar-to, mas não me deixaste; tens mesmo de ouvir e dar-me uma resposta, pois não posso continuar assim durante mais tempo.

jo achou que parecia que a irmã tinha amadurecido muito naqueles quinze dias e que se distanciava dela para um mundo em que não poderia segui-la.

he was quite satisfied, for she folded both hands over his arm, and looked up at him with an expression that plainly showed how happy she would be to walk through life beside him, even though she had no better shelter than the old umbrella, if he carried it.

Marriage is an economic proposition.

She felt comforted at once by the sympathy and confidence given her; the knowledge that her mother had a fault like hers, and tried to mend it.

Slow writing is a meditative act: slowing down to understand our relationship to our writing, slowing down to determine our authentic subjects, slowing down to write complex works, slowing down to study our literary antecedents.

It is only familiarity, [Bonnard] seems to say, that can elicit such a profound relationship to our living spaces, but only if we see these places as if for the first time.

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?

Nector [speaking to Bernadette] could have told her, having drunk down the words of Nanapush, that comfort is not security and money in the hand disappears. He could have told her that only the land matters and never to let go of the papers, the titles, the tracks of the words, all those things that his ancestors never understood how the vital relationship to the dirt and grass under their feet.

As Eliza's strength declined, John grew more solicitous.

they had genuine affection for Jack.

Yet Junius never saw how much his own unbending style and unrealistically high standards had contributed to Pierpont's slavish dedication to work.

Eliza received sympathy from her neighbors, who felt she was being abused by her husband. Yet she remained loyal to him

Parmalee and Senior had a remote relationship and seldom saw each other.

Early on, John and Laura must have spotted each other as kindred souls, especially when it came to religion.

His similarity to his father in thought and outlook is almost weird.

Despite the chronic friction between them, Big Bill continued to borrow money from his son and by the end of the century still had a $64,000 loan outstanding—more than $1 million in today's money.

Sensitive to her delicate psychological state, he sent her gently whimsical letters.

If he showed generosity toward Frank, it deepened his brother's dependence and bred anger; if he didn't give him money, Frank threw a tantrum.

as if growing more accustomed to the burden that she bore and more reconciled to Bill's absences.

His contact with Rockefeller and involvement in the University of Chicago followed soon thereafter.