Relationships and Family

Among such persons are those women who transform themselves into just that function of a man that is but weakly developed in him, and then become his purse, or his politics, or his social intercourse. Such beings maintain themselves best when they insert themselves in an alien organism; if they do not succeed they become vexed, irritated, and eat themselves up.

For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

We loved with a love that was more than love.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

A child is the root of the heart.

A child is the root of the heart.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.

In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.

A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there’s less of you.

A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there’s less of you.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship—only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship—only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses.

Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an affair of “the heart.”

A man’s kiss is his signature.

A man’s kiss is his signature.

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? An oath sworn nearer by; a promise made With greater certainty; a vow which seeks To make itself more binding; a rosy dot Placed on the “i” in loving; ’tis a secret Told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? An oath sworn nearer by; a promise made With greater certainty; a vow which seeks To make itself more binding; a rosy dot Placed on the “i” in loving; ’tis a secret Told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

LOVE IS WHAT HAPPENS TO A MAN AND WOMAN WHO DON’T KNOW EACH OTHER.

LOVE IS WHAT HAPPENS TO A MAN AND WOMAN WHO DON’T KNOW EACH OTHER.