Relationships Quotes

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

20931 quotes

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