Man and Boy Quotes

“to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“Love means knowing when to let go.”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“I once read somewhere that, in any relationship, the one who cares the least is the one with all the power.”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“If you are always craving, always wanting, never satisfied, never happy with what you've got, you end up even more lost and lonely than you do...”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“I'm not saying it's what I would have wanted. But don't you see? We fuck up our lives again and again and it's always our children who pick up the bill. We move on to new relationships, always starting over, always thinking we've got another chance to get it right, it's the kids from all these broken marriages who pay the price. They - my son, your daughters, all the millions like them - are carrying around wounds that are going to last a lifetime. It has to stop.”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“I love you but I'm not in love with you”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“It can't always be a honeymoon”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“Sometimes the fog in his eyes would clear, that fog caused by the pain and the killers of pain, and when it cleared, I saw regret and fear in those eyes swimming with tears and I was convinced that this was it, this was the end, this was surely the end.”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“Love is what's left when being in love has gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy, but you're not under any illusions about them. Maybe that kind of love is not exciting and passionate and all those things that fade with time. All those things that you're so keen on. But in the end it's the only kind of love that really matters.”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“I think that the spirit lives on, I don't know if it's in heaven or if it's somewhere else, some other place that I don't know anything about. But it doesn't just die. It lives on. Even if it's only in the hearts of the people we love.”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“But you have learn to let go, my mother said, 'That's part of it, isn't it?' 'Part of what?' Part of what it means to love someone. To really love someone. If you love someone you just don't see them as an extension of yourself. You don't just love them for what's in it for you.' 'Love means knowing when to let go,' she told me.”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“He couldn't fight this sadness which came in the middle of the night, this sadness which made you feel that nothing could ever be any good again.”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“There was lots that could be done.
But there was also nothing that could be done.
My father was dying.”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“Love mans knowing when to let go.”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy