Mutual Quotes - Page 32

• And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

  H. G. Wells

  Gratitude, Flower, Heart

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.57, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Fine. You win. I quit. You two deal with this. I’m going home. Packing up all my personal items, and when you, Caleb, end up dead because the coach has your jockstrap or something else I didn’t steal but someone else did, don’t call me. I’m done and I’m going to hide in a bunker until all of this is over with.” – Nick “I hate you, Nick.” – Caleb “Feels mutual, Demon.” – Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Home, Winning

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• People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

  Werner Herzog

  Respect, Hate, Thinking

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Paul Cronin, 2002.

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• A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hatred, Complaining, Conversation

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “Christmas with Holly”, p.102, Macmillan

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• A rewarding relationship occurs when there is a common spiritual goal, shared spiritual values and a mutual desire to build a relationship upon a spiritual foundation and for the purpose of connecting to the light of the creator.

  Yehuda Berg

  Spiritual, Light, Goal

  Yehuda Berg (2010). “The Kabbalah Book of Sex: & Other Mysteries of the Universe (Large Print 16pt)”, p.260, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Thinking, Feelings, Matter

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• Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.

  Patti Smith

  Compassion, Irony, Moments

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.271, A&C Black

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• She raised her eyes to his. They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it. They had been drawn together through violence and tragedy, and had overcome it. They walked different paths and had found a mutual route. Some things last, she thought. Some ordinary things. Like love.

  Nora Roberts

  Eye, Like Love, Tragedy

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• Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our circle will be small, but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune. And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Circles, Ties, Despair

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2007). “Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus [1818 Text]: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.311, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Men invented money Women invented mutual aid

  David Mitchell

  Men, Aids, Mutual Aid

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.143, Random House Group

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• There's no district 12 to escape from now, no Peacekeepers to trick, no hungry mouths to feed. The Capitol took away all of that, and I'm on the verge of losing Gale as well. The glue of mutual needs that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away.

  Suzanne Collins

  Years, Melting Away, Together

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

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• There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  War, Ambition, Understanding

  "Education and the Significance of Life".

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• Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dirty, Argument, Laundry

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• You the Dark-Hunter?" Kyrian arched a brow. "You the flunky?" "I don't like your tone." "And I dont't like you. Now that we've dispensed with the introductions and have declared our mutual distaste for one another, why don't you take me to the one who holds your leash?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dark, Hunters, Tone

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• No one ever owns a cat...you share a common habitation on a basis of equal rights and mutual respects...although somehow the cat always comes out ahead of the deal.

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Cat, Rights, Common

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• They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

  Thomas Hardy

  Expression, Feelings, Phrases

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.378, e-artnow

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• Let's be friends based on mutual hate.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Hate

  "Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness". Series of graphic stories by Bryan Lee O'Malley, "Scott Pilgrim", vol.3, 2006.

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• To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Hate, Order, Two

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• So, are you two going to get married already or waht?" I laughed. "Excuse me?" Carlee rolled her eyes. "Please. You don't even look at other guys. And I have never seen a guy that crazy about a girl before. You're like, his entire world." I shrugged, smiling. "I can't imagine ever finding someone better than Lend. He just--knows me. Totally. Everything. And miraculously he still likes me." "Likes? Girls, he head-over-heels-freaking-loves you." "It's mutual!

  Kiersten White

  Girl, Crazy, Love You

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• There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.

  Ian Mcewan

  Character, Self, Views

  FaceBook post by Ian McEwan from Dec 19, 2012

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• What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Age, Together

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.318, Bantam

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• Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the injustice which one half of the human race are obliged to submit to, retorting on their oppressors, the virtue of men will be worm-eaten by the insect whom he keeps under his feet

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Wise, Men, Race

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In the wake of my talk with Earl, we had come to a mutual understanding about Lena, the only kind guys ever come to. Meaning, I hadn’t brought it up, and they hadn’t brought it up, and between us, we somehow all agreed to go on like this indefinitely. Don’t ask, don’t tell.

  Kami Garcia

  Guy, Understanding, Goes On

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Creatures”, p.108, Penguin UK

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• It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets.

  Kiera Cass

  Acceptance, Comforting, Secret

  Kiera Cass (2013). “The Elite”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.

  Anne Bronte

  Increase, Pure

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.442, Diversion Books

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