Sarah Weinman Quotes

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.

If you ask people what attracted them to the person they love, they never tell you of some perfect feature that focused them on sheer surfaces but rather an imperfection that allowed them to see into their uncharted depths.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

I love you more than my own skin.

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.

I have daddy issues. So I keep tissues on me at all times.

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.

Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love.

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

I can't think I've ever loved anybody quite as much... My mother was my life, really; she was my entire world.

Some of the most disturbing, sick relationships I've witnessed are between long-time friends, and especially mothers and daughters.

You can love and hate your family with equal measure, but the power of the bond you have to have with them, you can't really ever walk away.

I had fallen in love once with someone, and I remember it being so distinct, where after the first time they'd hug me, I never wanted another man to ever touch me ever again.