Kathryn Stockett Quotes

When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.

You don't want to see me all the time. You get bored.

I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

I really want that there should be love and respect between me and Ranbir, but at the same time, I want that there should be some kind of distance - that I can see you, but I can't feel you.

Relationships, like eyebrows, are better when there is space between them.

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

People have to find their rhythm. Some people have need for more contact and time together and some people need more space.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.

I wasn't interested in having to live with a camera - I have a hard enough time getting along with myself. I don't need cameras around and all that action.

I'm really outgoing, but there's times I want to be by myself.

An artist could have a really big relationship, and then they break up, and any song after that, people are automatically going to assume that that song is about that person.

Everybody writes about love and cheating and heartbreak. We've done all that.

I remember where I was when I wrote that story, 'Mermaid in a Jar.' I was at a boyfriend's, and he was the only boy I ever dated who was rich, and his parents had a ski chalet, and I just didn't know how to break up with him, so I decided I would be celibate.

Sometimes marriages break up, sometimes relationships don't work.

When we were writing songs for the Eagles, Don Henley would be involved in some new love relationship, and he was always excited about them. But we were all waiting for the day that they would break up.

I have always been interested in how strange it is, when you date someone and break up, and then you both move on and continue your lives. What do you owe them, if anything, for that time intimate time spent together? What does that time mean, if anything?

Even though I'm a free spirit, I like to keep my friends and my lovers separate. I have extraordinary friends, but I don't want to see them naked.

Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

Our relationship finally ended when he took to waking me up in the wee hours o the morning when he would go surfing. He thought it might be fun to have me come watch. "Fun for who?" I wanted to ask. i had never asked him to come to Happy Hour and watch me drink.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant