“You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.”
“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.”
“The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be?”
“Their families cordially detested one another.”
“But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.”
“The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. ”