Quotes about Relationship

She never knew where he was, in what city or on what continent, the day after she had seen him. He always came to her unexpectedly—and she liked it, because it made him a continuous presence in her life, like the ray of a hidden light that could hit her at any moment.

She sat beside him in the car, feeling no desire to speak, knowing that neither of them could conceal the meaning of their silence.

She felt no thrill of conquest; she felt herself owned more than ever, by a man who could say these things, know them to be true, and still remain controlled and controlling—as she wanted him to remain.

She tried to demonstrate her power over him. She stayed away from his house; she waited for him to come to her. He spoiled it by coming too soon; by refusing her the satisfaction of knowing that he waited and struggled against his desire; by surrendering at once.

He stood looking straight at her. Their understanding was too offensively intimate, because they had never said a word to each other.

Whatever it was that others sought in life, their right to what they now felt was all the two of them wished to find.

She felt that his presence seemed more intensely real when she kept her eyes away from him, almost as if the stressed awareness of herself came from him, like the sunlight from the water.

And you won't have to wake up at four in the morning," she said, a point that I found most compelling.

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.

Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.

That means you're my kid, I explained, and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.

His confidence was enviable and maddening. Most of the time she didn't want him to solve or contradict her worries, she just needed him to listen and agree with her on the awfulness at hand. This was a principle of marriage she'd explained many times.