Relationships Quotes

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

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"Harth had been my enemy, and now was my friend, and I loved him"
Genly Ai
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"The major problem is that Ford is going to refuse to have anything to do with a girl who isn't from his home planet."
Zarniwoop
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"To know another person you must first be willing to lose yourself."
Estraven
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"Valentine was his anchor to sanity."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"Trust is a luxury we can ill afford."
Genly Ai
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"A man who falls in love is at a disadvantage because he is already half-committed."
Estraven
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"Love and duty are not always friends"
Catelyn Stark
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"The bonds between people are formed by shared suffering."
Genly Ai
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"The dead are closer to us than the living on distant planets."
Kris Kelvin
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"The ghosts we carry are heavier than the ship itself."
Kris Kelvin
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"To know another person is to know yourself"
Estraven
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"Human: I demand an apology!"
Arthur Dent
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"Loyalty to a person transcends loyalty to a nation"
Estraven
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"I'll make you my kemmering"
Estraven
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"To know another is to become in some measure that other"
Genly Ai
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"Love makes us vulnerable to forces we can neither name nor resist."
Kris Kelvin
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"What we seek in another person is reflection of ourselves."
Kris Kelvin
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"We cannot know another person; we can only know our projections."
Kris Kelvin
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"We are the same. We are not the same."
Genly Ai
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"Betrayal is a knife that cuts both ways."
Paul Atreides
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"You could not trust them at all"
Genly Ai
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"Jealousy is the great leveler among all beings"
Genly Ai
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"We cannot be complete without the other"
Estraven
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"Some bonds transcend the boundary between life and death."
Kris Kelvin
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"We search the cosmos for meaning, unaware it dwells only in connection."
Kris Kelvin
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"Mockery aside, we are not so different, you and I."
Jaime Lannister
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"Communication bridges all divides."
Ryland Grace
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"A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated"
Genly Ai
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"They were more alien to me than the Gethenians"
Genly Ai
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"We were made separate by our very nature"
Genly Ai