Ally Carter Quotes

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

I don't know, but I always loved that image of a girl putting toenail polish on a guy - her boyfriend, or something like that. Or a guy waking up in the morning and reaching over and putting on his girlfriend's shirt. Like Keith Richards putting on one of Anita Pallenberg's blouses, or Courtney Love putting nail polish on Kurt Cobain.

I think it is very natural to want to be partnered, but you never know. you read about mature love affairs in the press, and it gives you hope. You think: 'Well, it's not impossible.'

No one can understand how close a marriage actually is. You just don't know: with a husband and wife, they have a special connection.

Of course I prefer to be with someone, but with the right someone.

In the early days, I was everything to David. I was his creative partner, his lover, his soul mate.

It is very natural for a couple in love to be physically intimate.

I don't miss being single at all.

Love is a secret society, a community for two.

Collaborating with your wife is amazing because you are doing something together with a person you truly love and know and discover things about her in that process which you have never had discovered on other circumstances.

I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

When you love someone, you have to be with them, don't you? To be part of their life, to have them be part of yours." Glory in Death

The art of love is who you share it with.

I'm very much a relationship guy. I like to bounce ideas off the person that I love. I like having a real connection.

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

He felt married to her, that was all.

He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark. It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years.

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

... love is banality to all outsiders.

Skill makes love unending.

The biggest idea that I have learned - I basically went in to write a book about Adam and Eve, ended up writing a book about love. And what did I learn? Love is a story you tell with another person.

Relationship and love are totally different things. Love is never a relationship, and relationship is never love. Love relates, but it is not a relationship. Relationship is a dead thing, a closed thing. Love is a flowing.

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?