Relationships Quotes
Marriage is not 50-50. Divorce is 50-50. Marriage has to be 100-100. It isn't dividing everything in half, but giving everything you've got!
She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped her.
Moving on means getting back on track to align with the opposite of what turned you off.
When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family, Madeline had told her once.
Any woman has the power to be truly happy, with or without a man.
At first, I was grateful to be the object of such intense desire. Yet what’s flattering in the first year can be suffocating in the eighth.
There's only three things you need to do when you are finished editing your book - Sleep! Sleep! and Sleep!
You may say you're "anti-status, " but if you filled a room with people who said that, they would soon form a status hierarchy based on how anti-status each person claims to be.
A wife's loyalty is tested when her husband has nothing. A husband's loyalty is tested when he has everything.
...it isn’t things and proximity, or even blood that holds us all together. What makes a family is love and loyalty.
Then you shouldn’t be worried about him being with me. You can have him back when I’m done with him.
Statements don't exist by themselves. Just like people, they are in relationship with one another.
It’s scary when it’s real. When it’s not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real live person in front of you, with, like, expectations. And wants.
Don’t assume your partner knows about everything you expect in a relationship. Let them know. A relationship should be based on communication, not on assumptions.
Messy" is a word we use to explain a conflict with an expectation we had. Eliminate the expectation, and you eliminate the "messy".
She was a planet, way out in space, out of its orbit, and he was an unmanned spaceship, taking measurements of the atmosphere. She was not suitable for habitation.
Well, honey, once you've been head-over-heels in love with somebody, you don't go back to being 'friends'. It doesn't work that way. - Megan's Dad
...our family became a place where you screamed for help but no one heard, not ever.
The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven.
relationships would be without fault if we would just do what we would want our spouse to do in every situation.
Men's loyalty to their women dies hard - and almost always too late. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")
I think I must have invented you on one of those days I was really bored.
I'm not trying to put you down, but even if I did, you'd have nowhere to go.
He is a unicorn. I want to gently capture him and bring him back to my lab for research.
If you ignore the red flags, embrace the heartache to come.
Sometimes I dig holes for people to fall in. Then I shout, “I've got you!
Finding love should not cause you to lose your mind.
I want to be some body’s dumplin’. I’m not chicken.
Your private self must become the same as your public self.
The present moment is the definition of eternity. It has never not been the present moment. This isn't scriptural or unscriptural - it is merely a logical fact.
That was the problem these days--everything was considered disposable--clothes, cell phones, relationships.
If you want to be a strong, maturing Christian, your first priority is to develop a closer relationship with God.
If Shane had learned one thing, it was to never tamper with a firecracker during an explosion. That stood double when applied to women – especially when you were the idiot who’d lit the fuse.
I just wish Mary Elizabeth would ask me questions other than “What's up?
If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.
Sophie clutched Grant tighter. 'I don’t know what screwed-up messages from your family are floating around in your head right now, but you’re staying right here.
I admired so many things about you. Almost everything. But I don’t want to wind up like you. I don’t want to starve to death, all alone on some island inside my own head. Hopeless.
It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.