Relationships Quotes
Connection, conflict, and everything in between. What our bonds with others teach us about ourselves.
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"You suppose to take care of me. Why you want to kill me?"Celie
"I use to wonder who I'd be if Shug Avery never existed."Celie
"Relationships demand honesty."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"She doesn't love me. She doesn't even know me"Serena Joy
"We've never been close, not really."Ruth
"It's possible I've misunderstood you."Ruth
"Betrayal cuts deepest when it comes from those we trusted most."Laila
"We are bound to each other by invisible threads stronger than any visible chain."Mariam
"One must take a friendly approach."Brother Jack
"She is the east and I am the west. We are worlds apart."Rasheed
"Women are communicative, we are trained for that"Offred
"Touch and be touched, that is the only real prayer"Offred
"I do not know which of the two is now real: Ken's friendship or his hate."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"I know what it is to have a man there who shouldn't be."Serena Joy
"We didn't get to know each other in any of the ways that matter."Offred
"She could not imagine a future without him."Cecilia Tallis
"There is no me without you."Laila
"Love and hate are two sides of the same coin."The Narrator (omniscient)
"Touch is the most dangerous and necessary of all human connections."The Narrator (omniscient)
"You'll see one day that I'm a mirror."Jalil
"She wanted to be loved as she was, not as she pretended to be."Briony Tallis
"They used to be able to shut you up with a kiss."Offred
"We lived as usual, by our usual arrangements, in our usual state of siege and détente."Offred
"She looked at me finally, right in the eye, and then away."Offred
"Touch is a thing that brings people together or tears them apart."The Narrator (omniscient)
"I could not tell what her face was like; she had a good body though."Offred
"I am not obliged to feel the same way about people who are not obliged to feel anything about me."Offred
"She was not a person but a remedy for loneliness."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"I want to be valued, in the way that a sandwich gives me with my name on it"Offred
"They were like two adversaries whose hostility was rooted in a primal understanding."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)