Quotes About Relationship

I am scared, numbed from the marital wars - that deadly, deadening combat which is the opposite, the antithesis of the sharp painful struggles of lovers. Lovers fight with knives and whips, husbands and wives poisoned marshmallows, sleeping pills, and wet blankets.

The notion of lovers living together is altogether too demanding. One can be caught so unready.

The only place Aletta and I could be together unseen was just under the rafters in the church tower, a circumstance that propelled us into an earlier intimacy than what we would have known had we been permitted to walk together Sunday afternoons under the wide sky.

The thrill of falling in love is often the thrill of being loved; the thrill of marriage is the thrill of loving someone for the rest of your life. Each day - and year - that passes is a triumph of this act of loving.

If you can't share your true self with someone, he once told me, you're wasting your time.

Dating? Who says we're dating? This feels like a date, he said simply. Dinner, dancing, a nightcap at my place. He took out two slender, stemmed glasses. To me, that spells date. We skipped over the asking out and primping and getting nervous beforehand. Yeah, who needs that?

Luck, Nana made a tsking sound. That kind of thinking is naive. A monumental love and a great marriage don't simply happen, like winning the lottery. You have to build it and nurture it, and quite often, it's hard work.

Never let anyone tell you that food isn't a kind of love. Yet

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She visited her father all the time. She'd stepped over piles of clutter, but it had never occurred to her that Pop was having serious problems. As time went by, his carelessness had increased, but Rosa hadn't thought anything of it.

She suspected that a big factor in her choice was the fact that they were both men. They had exactly zero interest in attacking a woman. But it was more than that. It was the love she read on their faces when they looked at each other, their commitment to openly and fiercely love each other even though society might disapprove. Given its conception during a violent rape, this child might also need that strength of commitment and acceptance.

they rarely spoke. They didn't need to, because they knew each other's hearts without words.

When times get hard and you start wondering why you got married in the first place, remember the love.

I suspect I shall love you, she wrote with a wry understanding, as long as you do me, at least, and perhaps a little bit longer.

She wasn't the only woman to share FDR's life or his death or even his bed, but she would be the only woman to share his grave.

In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the same office.

the idea that the Ancients had a different way of relating to the world, that they experienced it as something that interacted with them. When they observed the world, the world observed them back.

She so cheerfully resigned to his neglecting her that he could not help opening his mouth to protest

You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me.

She decided that if Lucas was gay then she was going to have to get a sex change operation. He would be so worth it.

He was my cream, and I was his coffee - And when you poured us together, it was something.

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You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.

Marry me,' he said. [...] 'No,' she said. 'It scares me.' [...] 'What aspect of it scares you?' 'The loneliness.