“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“It is interesting that human relationships, if there is an independent way of judging truth, can become unargumentative.”
— Richard Feynman Primary source“I don’t want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“People are islands,” she said. “They don’t really touch. However close they are, they’re really quite separate. Even if they’ve been married for fifty years.”
— Ian Fleming Primary source“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“I think it’s the same with all relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn’t care if the other is alive or dead, then it’s just no good.”
— Ian Fleming Primary sourceStrangeness Love Friendship Help Purpose