Quotes About Relationship

She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.

Daniel? Yes. Did you ever think we were meant not to be together? No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.

But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.

You should find him because he loves you.

I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first. (Riley to her sister Alice about Paul)

He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.

We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.

He took her in his arms right away. I'm so sorry, he murmured in her ear. He rocked her, saying it over and over. But no matter how many times he said it, no matter how much she knew he meant it, the words stirred around in her ear but didn't get into her brain. Sometimes he could comfort her. Sometimes he said what she needed, but today he couldn't reach her. Nothing could.

Alice suspected Paul couldn't really picture his father, just like she couldn't picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.

He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

I've always feared she would find completion without me, and I'd be around, stupid and unperfected, forever.

Él no escucharía sus palabras. Dudaba también de que fuera a escuchar su silencio.

You don't mean it, he said mournfully. Not at all, she thought. Yes, I do, she said.

he had found the courage once in his life to seize a chance at love from a person who knew how to give it. Lena prayed on these two moons that she would find that same courage.

Because the truth wouldn't be comforting and wouldn't bring them closer again.

His power over her was limited, because she didn't love him.

For nine years Paul had not called her by her name. She had always been Shorty or Kid or You to him since she was twelve. It wasn't until her first night working as a waitress at the yacht club that Alice realized this

What was powerful at thirteen and seventeen should have grown quaint by twenty-four, and yet the covenant, by its nature had durability. It still existed between them. He could feel it even now. You could go away for months and years, but it was still here, bound to what you loved, binding you to it.

Tibby, on the other hand, had spent hundreds and hundreds of hours with Brian striving for the comfort of not knowing.

The conversation flowed and stopped and started as it would, a third thing in the room, not quite controlled by either of them, but mostly benevolent.

They think of themselves as your grandparents,' he said. But call them whatever you like. James and Mary?

Mary watched her fondly. 'My Clive

She said, "You know, if we're gonna have a relationship I want you to know who I am. I'm gay." I said, "I don't care." And I really don't care because, oh God, if you can find love you're lucky.

Still, he loved her. She knew that. He loved her the best way he could. But she wasn't sure that was enough anymore.