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Quotes About Relationship

Franny stood up with the intention of leaving. When Hay took her arm, she glared at him. But he was looking at her the way he used to, when he was the only person in the world who really knew her.
~ Alice Hoffman
that when you truly love someone and they love you in return, you ruin your lives together. That is not a curse, it's what life is, my girl. We all come to ruin, we turn to dust, but whom we love is the thing that lasts.
~ Alice Hoffman
If you're disconnected from someone for a long enough time, does blood still commit you to one another? Does history, or fate?
~ Alice Hoffman
Will her husband love her?" "Would you want love you had to buy?" Isabelle asked.
~ Alice Hoffman
She didn't understand that when you truly love someone and they love you in return, you ruin your lives together. That is not a curse, it's what life is, my girl. We all come to ruin, we turn to dust, but whom we love it the thing that lasts.
~ Alice Hoffman
Shouldn't he have waited?" "Not when you told him to go away. People believe you when you say things like that. You never told him you loved him, did you?
~ Alice Hoffman
Who would have guessed you'd be crying over that old hay bag." But that wasn't it at all, Elinor saw that from the look on his face when he turned to her. That was the attachment, that was the way he held on to her.
~ Alice Hoffman
The responsibility of loving someone is too much for anyone to take, which is why she's done her best to avoid it.
~ Alice Hoffman
Lion had to kiss her then and there, even though when he kissed her he felt as though he were swallowing her sadness.
~ Alice Hoffman
what she misses most is someone knowing she's alive
~ Alice Hoffman
She thought she still had a child as a daughter, but she had something entirely different, someone who had turned thirteen.
~ Alice Hoffman
She has never told anyone, but she knew as soon as she saw him that she'd marry Ivan. It was less love at first sight than some deep knowledge that he was the man she would someday fall in love with.
~ Alice Hoffman
He wished he could somehow let Claire know this was what love was. The ability to ask for something. The desire to give someone what they asked for.
~ Alice Hoffman
I had always done as he asked, not because I was bound to do so by duty but because I saw the depth of who he was and how he himself suffered.
~ Alice Hoffman
Love someone and they're yours forever
~ Alice Hoffman
Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.
~ Alice Hoffman
That's how we got our dog, Revolver. We thought he was crazy about us, but it turns out that Labrador retrievers adore everyone. Well, maybe that's what love is, a state of mind ready to grace anyone willing to accept it. Anyone who cares.
~ Alice Hoffman
The fact that she's the high point of someone's life is pathetic. She's probably never loved her mother more than she does at this moment. Maybe she didn't even know what love was before today.
~ Alice Hoffman
Then I understood that when someone begins to tell you her story, you are entwined together.
~ Alice Hoffman
Why should you not speak to me / And why should I not speak to you?
~ Alice Hoffman
have been in the war? Suddenly she said, "Are you the piano player, upstairs?" For that was how she and John had come to refer to him, The piano player, upstairs. He turned his nose to her again, warily now. "I play," he said. She nodded. "We hear you," she told him. "My husband and I, we listen," she said. Every
~ Alice McDermott
Her husband closed the door on her, gently, with both hands, as if he were covering her with a blanket. He crossed in front of the car, his hair on end and the pale scalp at the back of his head exposed. He now looked every bit his age, she thought. As he grew older, it seemed to her that she was not losing sight of his younger self but coming to recognize instead another man altogether, one she was just beginning to find familiar. He
~ Alice McDermott
He pulled the door closed and the wind became just the slightest rush of air against the rolled-up windows. There was suddenly a pleasant warmth. Their voices, suddenly, seemed rich and sure now that they could speak quietly, now that their words were no longer scattered by the buffeting wind.
~ Alice McDermott
There was still more music to listen to after they had fallen apart. She thought she was beginning to recognize some refrain, or maybe he was just going over the same notes. With her eyes to the ceiling she said, "It's a baby grand." Her husband turned his head on the pillow. He might have been startled to find her there. He frowned, and then hesitated, and then whispered, disbelieving, "You can tell already?
~ Alice McDermott