Quotes About Relationship

Was it possible that he still retained some of the old regard for her?

You see now why I cannot marry you? I would never be able to rid myself of the shame of my past. And you would not be able to forget, either.

And who did you think I was, Diana Ingram? You were my fantasy lover, she said. And I realize with every ounce of foresight in my body that I will be teased about this for the rest of my life. By me? he said, looking down at her, one eyebrow raised. Me tease the woman I love? You malign me, Diana. I have one question, though. How do I compare with my competition?

How could he doom her to spend the rest of her days with him?

What are you doing here? she asked. It seems that you ask me that every time we meet, he said, and I always have the same answer. I wish to talk to you.

I wanted to be able to give her all of myself. I tried.

Is it really possible that you can love me enough to forgive me?

Ah, don't lie to me, he said. Believe me, I want to understand, I want to forgive. When I see you and when I hold you, I cannot believe that you are capable of the villainy that I have accepted all these years. I want you, Elizabeth.

No, he decided . . . he surely could not have believed for one single moment that it really was all finished between them.

For life would lose its final light if that friendship were ever withdrawn.

So this little boy was--I became her confidant a little too early, I think. It didn't seem to warp me exactly, but it left me with a little too much knowledge at an early age. [p. 143]

We're married. I will protect you. I will die for you. Better than that. I will live for you.

Horses are mirrors. They'll show you back whatever you show them. Watch a man with a horse, and you'll see what's inside his own self.

She was held in the tension just before movement, about to walk back toward the house. Later she would think, If I had turned away, I'd have missed the moment he fell in love. He would not remember it that way. What he experienced was not so much the beginning of love as a cessation of pain.

When a man beats his boy, he wants a son who won't buck him. He's trying to make a coward. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it works. And the hundredth boy? We can go either way. Kill the old man, or try to become a better one.

He respected her before he loved her, and he loved her before he finished his lunch that first day.

They spoke then, with the dear and ordinary intimacy of the well-married in the eye of a storm. [369]

Stu asked me to marry him

SHE WAS MEETING a man she had recently and abruptly fallen in love with. She was in a state of ghastly anxiety. He was married, for one thing, to a Korean woman whom he described as the embodiment of all that was feminine and elegant. Not only that, but a psychic had told her that a relationship with him could cripple her emotionally for the rest of her life. On top of this, she was tormented by the feeling that she looked inadequate.

Despite their mutual ill humor, they fornicated again, mostly because they could more easily ignore each other while doing so.

I was at his house.

Groothertog Fabrizio, die mijn neef is en de broer van wijlen mijn man, met wie ik zo kortstondig was getrouwd, heeft mij aangemoedigd voor de tweede keer in het huwelijk te treden. Ik geef graag gehoor aan zijn advies... Signor Guido Parola zal mijn prins-gemaal worden. - Lucia

We denken alleen nog aan onze kennismaking.' 'Toen jij zo woest op me was en ik niet begreep waarom.' Hij keek haar lachend aan. 'Ik zal vast nog wel eens woest op je zijn, hertog Luciano,' zei Arianna.

Nou ja, je weet zelf hoe het is. Je hebt me vaak genoeg vijf verschillende japonnen op een dag zien dragen. Denk je dat je dat aankunt als we getrouwd zijn?' 'Ik zal met genoegen toekijken hoe je je vijf keer per dag omkleedt,' zei Luciano.