Relationships Quotes

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

20931 quotes

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"You have insulted me in every possible method."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I have found what I wanted—a new servitude!"
Jane Eyre
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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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"If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him."
Charlotte Lucas
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"I am bound to that man by cords woven of my very heartstrings."
Starbuck
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"To be enraged with you is as bad as it is good to be friends with you."
Captain Ahab
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"She looked at him with the barely perceptible rise of a woman who sees in a man something she recognizes but does not yet understand."
The Narrator
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"Affection is desirable. Money is desirable. But I never want to marry a man just because he is rich."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy."
Mr. Darcy
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"You appear to me, Mr. Darcy, to allow nothing for the influence of friendship and affection."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well."
Mr. Darcy
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"I will be your companion—your guide."
Mr. Rochester
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"We are all bound to each by invisible ropes"
Ishmael
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"I am glad you are of so little faith in my constancy."
Mr. Rochester
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"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well."
Mr. Darcy
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"I had never parted from her without the smallest pang of reproach."
Pip
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"You pierce my soul. I feel as though you know me intimately"
Sydney Carton
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"Relationships define our humanity."
Villefort
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"No man is an island unto himself"
Ishmael
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"It may be that you were meant for me."
Estella
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"Our relationship was built upon pretense."
Pip
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"If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity."
Charlotte Lucas
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"What a difference it makes to have someone who loves you nearby."
Levin
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"Life with another person is either marriage or a scandal."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"In an ideal marriage, partners grow together, not apart."
Levin
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"Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art."
Don Quixote
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"We are all bound by invisible threads."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"You cannot have a right to such very strong local attachment."
Mr. Darcy
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"Affection and confidence subsist in such a state as ours under peculiar circumstances."
Mr. Darcy
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"I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds."
Mr. Darcy