Mark Lawrence Quotes

Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

See, that was the problem in relationships when emotion began muddying the waters. It was as if (Lexie) expected him to do or say exactly the right thing at exactly the right time, whatever that was.

In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.

My wife said to me 'I hope you win... but if you do and you go up and say you love me, don't think it makes up for never saying it when we're alone.

We have a very good head thing but we don't make love.

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?

Sometimes sex gets in the way of a relationship.

It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can't live with a woman.

I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.

But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person..." I made a face. "Like putting ammo in their hands.

I know you think I was pressured into binding myself with you before, but that's not true,I always intended to marry you, kitten.

I think our hearts are very chemical and we change the way we see people according to how we feel about them. That's what love is, in a way.

If we are to extract any joy out of our span, we must think and plan and make things better not only for ourselves but for others, since joy for ourselves depends upon our joy in others and theirs in us.

I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.

For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would always be a different being from him, listening to a different music, hearing a different sound, familiar with a different element.

So many young people think the big sex act is the whole movie, but that's not the case. You need to be able to talk and laugh and cry together.

if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.

That's how most men connect - in bed. The physical connection is important because it reinforces the emotional one.

You would think after all the hours I’d spent with Gale– watching him talk and laugh and frown– that I would know all there was to know about his lips. But I hadn’t imagined how warm they would feel pressed against my own. Or how those hands [...] could entrap me… I vaguely remember my fingers, curled tightly closed, resting on his chest.

I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.