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Quotes About Relationship

For her whole life she would sacrifice to him every quality of her own, and he wouldn't even be aware of the sacrifice, he would be surrounded by the wealth of feeling, intelligence, imagination that were hers, without knowing what to do with them, he would ruin them.
~ Elena Ferrante
amarlo suponía tratar de conseguirlo, no esperar a que él la quisiera.
~ Elena Ferrante
Cuánto me agotaba nuestra relación, y cuántas insidias se escondían en cada gesto, en cada frase que pronunciaba yo, que pronunciaba él.
~ Elena Ferrante
She felt that the years she had dedicated to him had been in vain
~ Elena Ferrante
Speaking, I wished to eliminate both me and him, in that bed, different from the children of long ago. We had in common only the violence we had witnessed.
~ Elena Ferrante
Carracci's possessions, she, too, was Carracci's possession.
~ Elena Ferrante
Por eso, por favor, si te ofendo, si te digo cosas feas, tú tápate los oídos, no quiero hacerlo y pese a todo lo hago. Por favor, por favor, ahora no me dejes, que, si no, me vengo abajo.
~ Elena Ferrante
hear the mad sound of the brain of one echo in the mad sound of the brain of the other.
~ Elena Ferrante
Ya entonces había algo que me impedía abandonarla. No la conocía bien, nunca nos habíamos dirigido la palabra y aun así estábamos enzarzadas en una competición continua, en clase y fuera. Pero sentía confusamente que si hubiese salido corriendo junto a las demás, le habría dejado a ella algo mío que luego no me devolvería nunca.
~ Elena Ferrante
But I must have overdone it, and the relationship between truth and fiction must have gone awry: now every street, every building had become recognizable
~ Elena Ferrante
dass es auf der Welt überhaupt nichts zu gewinnen gab, dass ihr Leben genauso wie meines voller außergewöhnlicher und unsinniger Abenteuer war und dass die Zeit ganz einfach ohne jeden Sinn verrann und es nur schön war, sich hin und wieder zu sehen, um den verrückten Klang des Gehirns der einen als Echo im verrückten Klang des Gehirns der anderen zu hören.
~ Elena Ferrante
For children parents are always a burden. But parents who draw too much attention to themselves are intolerable.
~ Elena Ferrante
Para los hijos los padres siempre somos molestos.
~ Elena Ferrante
There's nothing to be done about it, Giovanna, you really are like my sister.
~ Elena Ferrante
How much of him would I be forced to love forever, without even realizing it, simply by virtue of the fact that I loved them? What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn't die, it doesn't want to die.
~ Elena Ferrante
Avanzo lentamente, estoy muy lejos de pintar como el pájaro canta, como lo pedía Renoir. Pero soy tu pájaro al fin y al cabo y he anidado para siempre entre tus manos.
~ Elena Poniatowska
V?i tâm tr?ng h? h?i, Erika nói suy cho cùng b?n ch?t c?a tình yêu c?ng chính là c?c ?i?m c?a s? t?m th??ng.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Ng??i ?àn bà có thôi thúc trao t?ng t?t c? tình yêu và gi? t? giá.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
For Erika, the most profound evidence of love is failure.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
She only wants to be an instrument on which she will teach him to play.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Who cares about love? Jim replied. That's the easy part. It's only the first part. We were in life together, Alice. We were in life! And if we aren't together now, then we weren't together then? Do you understand?
~ Eli Horowitz
Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.
~ Elia Kazan
I couldn't imagine viewing Bill's presence on Earth as any kind of a miracle, but wasn't that itself the miracle—that love really was an obscure and unfathomable connection between individuals, and not an economic contest where everyone was matched up according to how quantifiably lovable they were?
~ Elif Batuman
Already we were competing to see whose way of doing things was better. But it wasn't a competition so much as an experiment, because neither of us was capable of acting differently, and each viewed the other with an admiration that was inseparable from pity.
~ Elif Batuman