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“We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.”
“Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other...”
“Well, clearly someone you trust isnt really someone you should be trusting, she said without thinking, and regretted it when Terrible glanced at her. He did it fast, just a quick cut of his eyes in...”
“My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.”
“Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner.”
“I think were romantic people in some ways, but when it comes to relationships its not a question of Can you trust another human being?, so much as a question of trusting yourself. The animalistic n...”
“Without such trust and safety, social relationships tend to become strategic rather than cooperative, increasingly full of skepticism and even anxiety and fear about others' intentions. (p. 27)”
“I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one asked for a second date. I was too nasty, a real wise guy, and all the boys could tell what my ro...”
“Sand castles just aren't made to last.”
“To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.”
“When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card.(Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)”
“This was one of those moments when I realized that my emotional baggage, once a few neatly packed pieces, was now like the Joads' truck, stacked high with old clothes, half a rocking chair, a mule,...”
“We tried to act familiar, which meant we couldn't ask the kind of questions that might have helped us figure each other out and year after year the distance grew.”
“Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa. ”
“..begin by talking about the kind of existentialist chaos that exists in our own lives and our inability to overcome the sense of alienation and frustration we experience when we try to create bond...”
“...It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in the shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of it. I ...”
“A human being basically could not live alone. I had always thought of ones soul as an imperfect creature; God had created it that way to allow the need to exist the need to have relationships with ...”
“And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured.”
“It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.”
“Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.”
