99 quotes found
“The vacancy in your heart doesn't connotes that nobody is seeking for the job of servicing your feelings, but because the employee must first have all the necessary credentials needed for the job.”
“It was more difficult not tounderstand than to understand.”
“I admitted it was tempting to wish for cosmic, mind-blowing, I-could-die-right-now orgasms, but the truth is, sometimes we do have to settle for light, that-was-fun type, and explore additional fea...”
“Tony and Peg have two kids, Terry-Lynn and Harvey, both of whom are enrolled in so many extracurricular and afterschool clubs that they hardly ever see their parents. If Terry-Lynn is in Girl Guide...”
“A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute.”
“Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign ...”
“Im not going to deny that I want to fuck you. I cant promise a future or that Ill be some sniveling boyfriend who pines away after you once I go back to L.A. But I will say that I have plans for yo...”
“So, if there are any couples here this evening having a secret extramarital affair, I encourage you to breed.”
“His fingerprints covered my skin.”
“The Widow Nazaret never missed her occasional appointments with Florentino Ariza, not even during her busiest times, and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved, although always ...”
“A man's love for a woman is not defined by his availability in bed, but by every ingredient he adds to improve the taste of the relationship.”
“I won't stay inwith married menany moresaid the wise girlthey're too agreeable,it's a little too muchlike curlingupwith the good book.You meanagood bookOh, dear,did I saythegood booksighed the witch.”
“Being faithful and monogamous is not natural for human beings. It takes work. Deep down we all know that. We have all been tempted to stray at some point or another. Even when it was only a fleetin...”
“Eli . . . I rasped. I lost track of where his kisses landed, where his fingers touched, and grew too comfortable in his arms. I cant.You can, he urged, pulling back and grinding my hips against his...”
“Back at home, days later, feel cranky and tired. Sit on the couch and tell him he's stupid. That you bet he doesn't know who Coriolanus is. That since you moved in you've noticed he rarely reads. H...”
“Extra-marital affairs become things of legend and often the undoing of legends and mere mortals.”
“Sticking to one person for a lifetime is not a waste of time or lack of better ones, it means you've found your place of eternity.”
“I notice perfume smells on his shirts and even later hours. I suspect he's having an affair but really don't care.”
“An attachment grew up. What is an attachment? It is the most difficult of all the human interrelationships to explain, because it is the vaguest, the most impalpable. It has all the good points of ...”
“A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.”
