“She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease: her skin felt as though it was her right size.” LoveAffection Author:Lily King
“Soon Paula would begin complaining that he didn't understand her, didn't appreciate her, didn't love her enough, when in fact he loved her so much his heart often felt shredded by it. But people always wanted words for all that roiled inside you.” LoveLanguageUnderstandingFamilyEmotionsWordsAppreciationSpeakingDaughters Book:Five Tuesdays in Winter Source: Five Tuesdays in Winter
“I can tell he lost someone close somehow. You can feel that in people, an openness, or maybe it's an opening that you're talking into. With other people, people who haven't been through something like that, you feel the solid wall.” LoveLossGriefFamilyGrief And LossGrief Support Book:Writers & Lovers Source: Writers & Lovers
“When you die, she thought now, you can no longer give love. You can't give love anymore. She wouldn't be able to love her children. It struck her suddenly as the very worst thing about death, worse than not being able to breathe or laugh or kiss. A kind of existential suffocation, to not be able to give her children her love anymore.” LoveChildrenDeathFamilyLoving Book:Five Tuesdays in Winter Source: Five Tuesdays in Winter
“It was so awful and weird. I could see all the things I had loved about him, I could see them, but I didn't love them anymore.” LoveFalling Out Of LoveEnd Of Relationship Book:Writers & Lovers Source: Writers & Lovers