Marriage has affected the laws of gravity. We will now revolve around each other. You will exert gravity on me, and I will exert gravity on you. We are one another's moons. You are holding onto my feet with both hands, as if otherwise you might fall right off the bed. I think I might float up and hit the ceiling, splat, if you let go. Please don't let go. Kelly Link
About This Quote

In this quote from Neil Gaiman’s novel Fragile Things, a couple is in the midst of a fight. The husband has also been drinking, and he is angry with his wife. He says to her, “You are my gravity.” It is an interesting thing to say, because what he means is that she holds him down. But what does she mean by this? He comes to understand her meaning, and he is very pleased with her answer.

She has told him that she does not want to fall, because falling means that she might hurt him. They are now in love because they are one another’s moons. Their orbits are linked together.

Source: Stranger Things Happen

Some Similar Quotes
  1. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. - Friedrich Nietzsche
  2. So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday. - Nicholas Sparks
  3. If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with disappointing... - Greg Behrendt
  4. Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but... - Kahlil Gibran
  5. It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid,... - Coco Chanel
More Quotes By Kelly Link
  1. When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works out new plot lines about giant spiders and keeps an eye out for abandoned couches, which he wrestles into the back of his...
  2. You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.
  3. Jeremy and Karl and Elizabeth have known each other since the first day of kindergarten. Amy and Talis are a year younger.. Now the five are inseparable; invincible. They imagine that life will always be like this--like a television show in eternal syndication--that they will...
  4. Wizards are always hungry.
  5. Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.
Related Topics