Rachel Cusk Quotes

Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.

When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, 'cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

Definition of love differs for different humans. If I will talk about me then its something that makes you forget about everything else.

When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world.

That's the definition of love, that going out in spirit to a separate and other soul and being received similarly.

My passion is capturing what it feels like to love, be it romantic or otherwise. I love to watch two people realize what they meant for each other - and that goes across all media, books, TV, movies, personal essays; everything.

I am convinced, that when a man tells a woman he loves her, he only means that he desires her; and that the only total love in this world is that of a father for his son.

Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.

In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and Sara Noriega calmed him with the simple argument that love was everything they did naked. She said, 'Spiritual love from the waist up and physical love from the waist down.

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.

I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.

If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses

True silence is the speech of lovers.

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then; and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made. And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves

You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.

Can it really be love if we don't talk that much, don't see each other? Isn't love something that happens between people who spend time together and know each other's faults and take care of each other?...In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love.

so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

To anyone else, Xavier's use of the word angel would have sounded like nothing more than a lovesick teenager professing his admiration. Only the two of us knew differently and now we both shared a secret- that brought us closer than ever. It was as if we had just sealed the bond between us, closed the gap, and made it final.

I love my privacy too, but at the end of the day, when it comes down to it with my woman, I call her a "special cloth alert." She's a rare breed and I love her and I don't ever want her to change because I think that's the balance of my relationship.