Quotes About Bond

be between us. My mother and stepfather love

Nice doggie.

Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join.

You are a dog. You are a dog," she repeated.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

No relationship in this world ever remains warm and close unless a real effort is made on both sides to keep it so.

At the fourth flight Lila did something unexpected. She stopped to wait for me, and when I reached her she gave me her hand. This gesture changed everything between us forever.

Let's write one together," Lila said once, and that filled me with joy.

La guardavo dalla finestra, sentivo che la sua forma precedente s'era rotta e ripensavo a quel brano bellissimo della lettera, al rame crepato e accartocciato. Era un'immagine che ormai utilizzavo di continuo, ogni volta che avvertivo una frattura dentro di lei o dentro di me. Sapevo - forse speravo - che nessuna forma avrebbe mai potuto contenere Lila e che presto o tardi avrebbe spaccato tutto un'altra volta.

Maybe it's not all over: even after she's married, something between us will endure.

Recuerda que estamos aquí, ahora, juntos, me dijo, lo demás es un telón de fondo y cambiará

I thought: not even Lila, in spite of everything, has managed to escape from my mother's world.

I would have don't anything for her, on that morning of reconciliation: run away from home, leave the neighborhood, sleep in farmhouses, feed on roots, descend into the sewers through the grates, never turn back, not even if it was cold, not even if it rained.

If she had already yielded, if she had already swallowed that insult, her bond with Stefano must truly be strong. She loved him, she loved him like the girls in the photonovels. 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.

Il m'aimait sans aucune tension et moi-même je le pris progressivement en affection.

I don't want my mother to die worrying about her sons." "Comfort her." "How." She smiled. "With lies. Lies are better than tranquilizers.

Mas foi sobretudo naquelas horas lentas que me senti realmente sua filha preferida. Quando me abraçava antes de eu ir embora, parecia querer deslizar para dentro de mim e ficar ali, assim como outrora habitei dentro dela.

Soon she'll start yelling, I thought, soon she'll hit her, trying to break that bond. Instead, the bond will become more twisted, will strengthen in remorse, in the humiliation of having shown herself in public to be an unaffectionate mother, not the mother of church or the Sunday supplements.

Lei riteneva di fare una cosa giusta e necessaria, io ero lì solo perché c'era lei. Saliamo lentamente verso il più grande dei nostri terrori di allora, andavamo a esporci alla paura e a interrogarla. Alla quarta rampa Lila si comportò in modo inatteso. Si fermò ad aspettarmi e quando la raggiunsi mi diede la mano. Questo gesto cambiò tutto tra noi.

me había puesto en su lugar. O mejor aún, le había hecho un lugar en mí.

I soon had to admit that what I did by myself couldn't excite me, only what Lila touched became important.

Para los hijos los padres siempre somos molestos.

There's nothing to be done about it, Giovanna, you really are like my sister.

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.