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