Quotes about Relationships
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
— Alice Hoffman
When your father doesn't love you, a stone forms inside of you, hard and sharp enough to pierce through bone.
— Alice Hoffman
She once told me that anyone who gets married had better like herself, because there's nobody else in this world that she'll ever really know, not truly.
— Alice Hoffman
Sometime after the accident, her parents stopped talking to each other unless they needed to discuss a household chore or a doctor's appointment. It's true, tragedy can bring you closer or drive you apart.
— Alice Hoffman
She had the ability to spot a liar, except for the lies spoken by someone she loved. That's what had caught her up; she'd been distracted by love, which seemed, at least at the time, to be the truest thing in the world.
— Alice Hoffman
I no longer cared if my mother disliked me. I didn't understand that when I closed myself to her, I took a part of her bitterness inside me. It was green and unforgiving, and as it grew it made me more like her. It gave me my strength, but it gave me my weakness as well.
— Alice Hoffman
How wonderful to say whatever you wanted without having to go over it in your mind, again and again, to make certain it wouldn't set him off.
— Alice Hoffman
I wish I could be traveling with her, but thank God she able to do it. Sometimes I feel mad at her. Feel like I could scratch her hair right off her head. But then I think, Shug got a right to live too. She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.
— Alice Walker
I talk to myself a lot, standing in front the mirror. Celie, I say, happiness was just a trick in your case. Just cause you never had any before Shug, you thought it was time to have some, and that it was gon last. Even thought you had the trees with you. The whole earth. The stars. But look at you. When Shug left, happiness desert.
— Alice Walker
I think she thought she love him. But he got so many of us. All needing somethin'.
— Alice Walker
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— Alice Walker
To love someone over many years is all the opportunity you need to learn how to love them back from anywhere.
— Alice Walker