Maxine Kumin Quotes

Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you masturbate with a partner.

What brings two people together anyway?

I don't know. I really don't. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life." She squeezed his hand. "And do you know what the answer was? The answer was that I wanted two things. First, I want you. I want us. I love you and I always have.

The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.

I want to be with you.

I think of friendship in terms of love.

If you love Alex now, then love him forever. Make him laugh again, and cherish the time you spend together. Take walks and ride your bikes, curl up on the couch and watch movies beneath a blanket. Make him breakfast, but don't spoil him. Let him make breakfast for you as well, so he can show you he thinks you're special. Kiss him and make love to him and consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.

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

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

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

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

My family's really close.

I think most people would struggle to define their whole relationship with just one label - like: my girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, confidantes, whatever - but in those moments, there's true joy in each other.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

Well, there are different levels of love.

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe.

You find what makes you happy, and it's usually being with the person you want to be with.

I don't want people to be lonely. I would like them to find partners.

If he wants you over for the holidays or can't wait for you to have dinner with his buddies, it's a sign he wants them to love you as much as he does.

I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms.

He gives my hand a tight squeeze, but that desperation, that urgency between us is gone. No insecurities. Max and Fang. Fang and Max. No longer a question. We just are.

You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the bottom of a vase, when you are terribly excited to see them, to talk to them again, having missed them after all that sleep.

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.