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Quotes About Relationship

The point is, Harry, if I'm not to find you abhorrent, there will have to be more reciprocity all round. Particularly from your side.
~ Hanif Kureishi
You're one of those old-fashioned, romantic men for whom women aren't really there unless you decide we are.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Herir a alguien es un acto de involuntaria intimidad
~ Hanif Kureishi
I've always hated your fucking nagging.' 'It's not nagging, it's for compassion.' 'Right. I won't be coming back here, Eva. You're such a drag now. It's your age. Is it the menopause that's making you like this?
~ Hanif Kureishi
And you and she? Stuffing regularly?' 'No, no, for God's sake, Bubble, not since the time you watched us. It wouldn't be the same without you there.
~ Hanif Kureishi
He isn't just a father, he's a daddy, someone who continues to love and support me in that special way only daddies have.
~ Hannah Alexander
Even exploitation and oppression still make society work and establish some kind of order. Only wealth without power or aloofness without a policy are felt to be parasitical, useless, revolting, because such conditions cut all the threads which tie men together. Wealth which does not exploit lacks even the relationship which exists between exploiter and exploited; aloofness without policy does not imply even the minimum concern of the oppressor for the oppressed.
~ Hannah Arendt
If, in the final stage of disintegration, antisemitic slogans proved the most effective means of inspiring and organizing great masses of people for imperialist expansion and destruction of the old forms of government, then the previous history of the relationship between Jews and the state must contain elementary clues to the growing hostility between certain groups of society and the Jews. We
~ Hannah Arendt
Because of their close relationship to state sources of power, the Jews were invariably identified with power, and because of their aloofness from society and concentration upon the closed circle of the family, they were invariably suspected of working for the destruction of all social structures.
~ Hannah Arendt
Whatever touches or enters into a sustained relationship with human life immediately assumes the character of a condition of human existence. This is why men, no matter what they do, are always conditioned beings. Whatever enters the human world of its own accord or is drawn into it by human effort becomes part of the human condition.
~ Hannah Arendt
When a man wanted to wake to the same woman's face every morning, to spend a lot of nights holding her close, he might as well buy the ring.
~ Hannah Howell
Make haste, Beloved, be thou like an hart On mountains spicy sweet; And I, on those High Places where thou art, Will follow on hinds' feet; As close behind the hart, there leaps the roe, So where thou goest, I will surely go. That, as perhaps you know, is the last verse of the Song of Songs, which is Solomon's. But for Grace and Glory it was the beginning of a new song altogether.
~ Hannah Hurnard
and then every once in a while, you remember to pull up and look at your partner, your life partner, really look at the one who travels down the lonely road right by your side, and you realize how much you are in this together.
~ Harlan Coben
Or maybe it's a ploy to get more sex." She gave him a look that curled his chopsticks. "Maybe it's working," she said. "Maybe I'll slip into something more comfortable," he said. "Not that Batman mask again." "Aw, c'mon, you can wear the utility belt." She thought about it. "Okay, but no stopping in the middle and shouting, 'Same Bat Time, same Bat Channel.' 
~ Harlan Coben
They say that happens a lot with the elderly that ? to paraphrase Springsteen ? two hearts become one. When one dies, the other follows.
~ Harlan Coben
Here are two short articles on how to seduce your man: ?Ask him if he wants to have sex. And: ?Say, Yes, that would be nice.
~ Harlan Coben
Space. Jack said he needed space. And that was all wrong. Never mind that "needing space" was one of those lame, cloying, namby-pamby, New Age we-are-the-world terms that was worse than meaningless—"needing space"—a terrible euphemism for "I'm soooo outta here.
~ Harlan Coben
He and Corinne were such a couple, such a unit, that the idea of her running away someplace without him or their family was completely anathema to him.
~ Harlan Coben
Eloise had been with Dad since before the riots. As long as I breathe, Dad often said, Eloise will have a job. She was like a second wife to him. She took care of him during his workday. They argued and fought and got grumpy with each other. There was genuine affection. Mom knew all this. Thank God Eloise is uglier than a cow living near Chernobyl, Mom liked to say, or I might wonder.
~ Harlan Coben
Myron was about to launch into a Berruti-type explanation of how traces didn't really work that way, but Katie never gave him the chance. "Just leave us alone!" And then she hung up. Like another dopey TV cliché, Myron said, "Hello? Hello?" when he knew that Katie Rochester had hung up and was gone. They
~ Harlan Coben
The girls were both high school seniors, both pretty in that coltish way. The one sitting on the corner of his old bed—the one he had met for the first time an hour ago—was named Erin. Myron had started dating Erin's mother, a widow and freelance magazine writer named Ali Wilder, two months ago. This party, here at the house Myron had grown up in and now owned, was something of a "coming out" party for Myron and Ali as a couple. The
~ Harlan Coben
Didn't you used to date a guy who worked in e-mail spam?" Grace asked. "Yep," Cora said. "Obsessive creep named—get this—Gus. Hard to get rid of. I had to use my own version of a bunker buster on him." "What did you do?" "I told Gus he had a small wee-wee." "Ouch." "Like I said, the bunker buster. Works every time, but there's often, uh, collateral damage.
~ Harlan Coben
Our whole relationship did have that unreal quality to it, both of us away from our regular lives and all the mundanity that goes along with that.
~ Harlan Coben
Beneath had his arm slung around a woman's neck. She had a dye job from the planet Bad Bottle and basically looked like the type of woman who might go for a tattoo-infested skinhead—or to say the same thing in a slightly different way, she looked like a regular on the Jerry Springer show. Both
~ Harlan Coben