Quotes About Relationship

I have always felt that there is a triangular quality to every love affair. There are two lovers and a third element - the idea of being in love itself. I wonder if it is possible to fall in love without this third presence, an imaginary witness to love as a thing of wonder, cast in the glow of our deepest stories about ourselves.

And in my secret heart of hearts, I admit there was some old mush that hadn't been scooped out of me by hardship and insanity. But there was also the story itself, the story Boris and I had written together, and in that story, our bodies and thoughts and memories had gotten themselves so tangled up that it was hard to see where one person's ended and the other's began.

The outside also becomes us. A human being is born an unfinished organism and as the person develops experience with others becomes a physical reality. The I and the you are not as neatly separated as the culture likes to believe.

Memories that have never been told aren't yet solid stories; they are potential stories. It may be that the interlocutor is the self, as in John Harmon's monologue, but it is always the self in relation to the idea of another, the "I" addressing a "you," because the desire to tell implies that the tale must become comprehensible to a listener.

There were many books inside me by then, and yet these jolted me with their originality. I met the man before I read what he had written, but if I had not loved his work as I did or if he had not admired my writing, it would have changed things. Our work has been an intimate part of our love affair and marriage for twenty-three years, but what I read wasn't then and isn't now what I know when I'm with him. His work comes from the place in him I can't know.

It marks the moment when a meandering conversation between two men took an irrevocable turn toward friendship.

the impersonal and the personal are always connected.

She's still in love with you," Violet said. "I know." "Or maybe she's in love with the idea of me on the other side of the country.

She fascinated me almost as much as he did, because, after all, she was his beloved, and I studied her carefully for clues to her success.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

i wanted more time so we could fall in love.

Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.

It's you my love, you who are the stranger.

When you love someone, the best you can offer is your presence.

I love you, Elizabeth... and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.

You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.

Yeah, I definitely want to find that right person and fall in love and have kids someday.

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

And, if you love me, as I think you do, let's kiss and part, for we have much to do

Love is a hard rock between two people and can't be torn apart

A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

Will you still love me when I'm a monster?

For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.