Relationships Quotes
As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.
Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body.
Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.
If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.
So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.
A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.
I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.
Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.
You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.
We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.
..he may love you, he may miss you, but ultimately he's just not that into you.
Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.
Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.
A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.
I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn't giving him.
Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?
With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him.
We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.
Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.
Fletcher was always going to be your ex-boyfriend, from the moment you met him. He's just finally caught up with where he's supposed to be.
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
Real relationships - the kind that were supposed to last but never did - were more trouble than they were worth.
The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life
But certainly not everyday you can find someone who wants to have a monogamous relationship
We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.
Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything.
Somewhere underneath it all, I know he doesn't deserve to take up space in my brain.
My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.
I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.
… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless.
I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.
Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
That was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love that does not exist. but darling, You are the only exception
Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.
Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you.
Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.
...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.
I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.
...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.
It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.
We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.