Relationships Quotes

Connection, conflict, and everything in between. What our bonds with others teach us about ourselves.

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"Our meetings at intervals ceased to be regular."
Pip
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"I cannot refuse you anything you ask of me."
Estella
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"There is a sort of estrangement between me and you, and I like it not."
Jane Eyre
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"I never can bear to be forgotten."
Jane Eyre
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"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"It ought not to be necessary for me to assure you of my intentions."
Mr. Darcy
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"I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has not the smallest concern at my disappointment."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I am not one of those young ladies who believe a man must be in love with them to admire them."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"She is a most delightful young woman."
Mr. Bennet
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"I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds."
Charlotte Lucas
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"The worst thing was that he was not my enemy."
Heathcliff
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"Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence."
Pip
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"I would ask you, dearest, to have the goodness to think often of the friend who is so much in your thoughts"
Lucie Manette
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"The golden thread that united them"
The Narrator
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"The only feelings that endure are love and loyalty"
The Narrator
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"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh; it is my spirit that addresses your spirit."
Jane Eyre
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"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case?"
Mr. Darcy
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"I have found it impossible to regard her with any sentiment but surprise."
Mr. Darcy
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"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"I have forgotten my manners in the tumult of my feelings."
Pip
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"You have been the cause of all the sorrow and suffering in my life."
Estella
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"She seemed to take pleasure in my discomfort."
Pip
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"For I am bound to that fisherman by a sort of structure in the very bones of his body."
Ishmael
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"Better to starve with man by thy side than to fatten thyself alone!"
Hester Prynne
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"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"It is such a long time since we have met!"
Jane Bennet