Relationships Quotes

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

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"On Tralfamadore, they are 'two people paying attention to each other now, enjoying the present moment.'"
Billy Pilgrim
R
"You are my burden to carry."
Rasheed
A
"How could I love and resent my father simultaneously?"
Amir
L
"I am going to be your second wife."
Laila
R
"A woman's face is her husband's business card."
Rasheed
J
"A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women."
Janine
O
"A man in a bed is a man, no more, no less."
Offred
M
"I am the wife of an idealist. When his ideals change, so shall I."
Mariam
M
"Some bonds cannot be broken, only bent."
Mariam
S
"Love different kinds of men since that's what peoples do."
Shug Avery
O
"I didn't think of him as real."
Offred
S
"Love and trust."
Serena Joy
O
"She didn't really love her, she just thought she should."
Offred
S
"One must maintain appropriate boundaries in all dealings."
Stevens
N
"I wonder what happen to people when they get married."
Nettie
S
"One doesn't establish a personal relationship with a car."
Stevens
S
"Miss Kenton and I conducted our professional relationship with great propriety."
Stevens
O
"You can't help it, the way desire works."
Offred
O
"I want to be valued, in the world, and in bed."
Offred
O
"I want to show her something but I don't know what."
Offred
S
"Harpo, she say, you not listening to what I'm telling you."
Sofia
C
"I spend my life trying to love somebody."
Celie
S
"I have always believed it is wrong to come between husband and wife."
Stevens
S
"Bantering is not entirely without value."
Stevens
J
"What man is there who does not prefer to be in the company of men rather than beasts?"
Judge Holden
M
"A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing."
Mariam
O
"I wonder who he is thinking of."
Offred
C
"I came back to myself through her eyes."
Celie
M
"But she supposed she had always wanted to know what it felt like to be important to someone."
Mariam
T
"The trouble is you can't live for five years with someone without wanting to know about them."
The Commander