top of page
.png){kind=small}
"A man and a woman represent two heavenly beings."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Relationship quotes
"Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship."
"She brought a chair into the room and placed it alongside the top of his bed. Then she held his hand as he drifted off to sleep. It was so small in her own hand, and it felt warm and dry. She pressed his hand gently, and his fingers returned the pressure, but only just, as he was almost asleep by then. She remembered, but not very well, what it was to fall asleep holding the hand of another; how precious such an experience, how fortunate those to whom it was vouchsafed by the gods of Friendship, or of Love. She thought she had forgotten that, but now she remembered."
"Many men remain spoiled boys that have never grown up. Women are prepared to raise them and take pain with patience, both as a condescendant contribution to supercilious compassion and as a proof of the eminence of their sense of worth. ['PrAat-A -penser" / "Ready-to-wear thinking']"
"Through sexual intimacy, two human beings become one mind, body and soul wrapped up in the cocoon of their skin."
"Mrs Beaumont shrugged. 'Dougie travelled light in life,' she said. 'He knew it was people who were important."
"Nothing should become a stumbling block in your relationship with the people who surround you."
"When's something difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder- if not impossible- to lose."
"In some cases, it is the woman's stomach-not her heart-that has left her man for another."
"Mr. Right' is usually two or eight men."
"This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don't jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going."
Explore more quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
bottom of page