101 quotes found
“My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature”
“Arik and Cadie always knew they wouldn't be one of those couples that let problems between them fester. They would immediately address any issues that arose, bring them out into the open, discuss t...”
“That woman," Grimm said quietly, "drives me quite insane."Kettle grunted. "Why'd you marry her, then?”
“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”
“Who does ever get what they want? It doesnt seem to happen to many of us if any at all. Its always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken unders...”
“What if we treated the ones we loved the same way we treated ourselves?”
“Oh, I loathe weddings. I loathe sitting down and participating in inane conversations with proud parents and smug couples who all look like they might secretly hate each other.”
“we live in a world where singles are more sexual active than couples”
“On the nights they went to bed at the same time, Rocco would lie there and watch her go to the closet, watch her choose either silky slips or mannish shirts, like running up sex flags from across t...”
“It had to unleash some invisible magic, he thought; Hades and Persephone, joining together again within these black and holy stone walls, for the first time in millennia. As they indulged in enjoyi...”
“Some couples are married because they fell in love. Some are married because the woman fell pregnant.”
“You are the greatest wife of all times and I love you so much more said my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita”
“I love you not because you're beautiful, but its through You that I discover more of myself!”
“Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and thats the thingyoure a couple, and couples cant function without trust.”
“One of the most difficult things he'd ever done was turn away and leave her standing in the shadows.”
“When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have s...”
“About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way ...”
“This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.”
“I thought I had lowered my standards pretty much, when I decided that any woman would be good for me as long as she respects me. It didn't took me long to realize that would never happen. I was bei...”
“All right, all right," he said, with that gesture I'd come to hate: two open palms facing me and patting the air, as if pushing me away, pushing me down, pushing any tears I might be preparing to c...”
