All Quotes By Tag: Relationships
“Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.”
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“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
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“You fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish hookan open eye”
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“Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.”
“She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.”
“you can take this mouththis wound you wantbut you can’t kissand make itbetter.”
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“Love spiritually, not strategically.”
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“I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones.”
“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”
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“But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.”
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”
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“We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.”
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“Annabeth,” he said hesitantly, “in New Rome, demigods can live their whole lives in peace.” Her expression turned guarded. “Reyna explained it to me. But, Percy, you belong at Camp Half-Blood. That other life—”“I know,” Percy said. “But while I was there, I saw so many demigods living without fear: kids going to college, couples getting married and raising families. There’s nothing like that at Camp Half-Blood. I kept thinking about you and me…and maybe someday when this war with the giants is over…”It was hard to tell in the golden light, but he thought Annabeth was blushing. “Oh,” she said…“I’m sorry,” he said. “I just…I had to think of that to keep going. To give me hope. Forget I mentioned—”“No!” she said. “Gods, Percy, that’s so sweet.”
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“A good family is better than loneliness and loneliness is better than a bad family.”
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“Two things in the world becomes more visible, the more the person tries to hide them from others and becomes moreinvisible, the more the person tries to reveal to others. They are nothing but lies and secrets!”