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Relationship Quotes


"Before marriage, you lose your virginity. After marriage, you get to give it away. Which would you rather experience?"


"My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers."


"And when hecatches meoff guardand says'i love you'i catch himoff guardand say 'i need your help."


"Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth."


"Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about."


"Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer."


"A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish."


"There was no mistaking what the feeling of fullness in his heart meant. They were mates and were bound together. Forever. Wharick's green eyes closed for a moment as he absorbed the feeling of completeness their bond provided his spirit."


"Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away."


"If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother."


"Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets."


"No, he said, we are not alone. I have you, and you have me. And there is Arya and Nasuada and Orik, and many others besides who will help us along our way."


"If there was ever an example for redemption, it's you."



"Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined."


"He only may chastise who loves."



"When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework."


"But marriage is forever.'Oh, not really,' he assured her. 'Only until one of us dies.'Her eyes widened. 'I do not want you to die,' she said.'Perhaps you will go first,' he said, 'though I rather think I hope not. I would probably have grown accustomed to you by then and would miss you."


"I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference."



"A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships."


"Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude."


"Even though I think that Mia and I have enough secrets between the two of us at this point."


"Trust is a foundation built one brick at a time."


"There is no fear in True Love. It is protective, and never gives a reason to doubt."


"The root systems of these lies we tell ourselves tend to grow together. It's all connected with the belief human love is conditional. But human love isn't conditional. No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it's just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love."


"If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether."



"Princess, the great difference between people in this world is not between the rich and the poor or the good and the evil, the biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have the pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched it with envy, sick envy. The spectators and the performers."


"She was only really a female to him.But perhaps that was better. And after all, he was kind to the female in her, which no man had ever been. Men were very kind to the person she was, but rather cruel to the female, despising her or ignoring her altogether. Men were awfully kind to Constance Reid or to Lady Chatterley; but not to her womb they weren't kind. And he took no notice of Constance or of Lady Chatterley; he just softly stroked her loins or her breasts."


"Sure, he might not have been perfect, but if I thought he was, isn't that all that matters?"


"Sex is a team sport, sugar."


"I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released, you refused to be found and I needed you more than anything in my life. Not to mend my broken bones, Arjuro. I needed my brother to mend my broken spirit."


"Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives."


"I danced alone for a couple of years, and came to believe that I might not ever have a passionate romantic relationship-might end up alone! I'd always been terrified of this. But I'd rather not ever be in a couple, or ever get laid again, than be in a toxic relationship. I spent a few years celibate. It was lovely, and it was sometimes lonely. I had surrendered; I'd run out of bullets. I learned to be the person I wished I'd meet, at which point I found a kind, artistic, handsome man. When we get out of bed, we hold our lower backs, like Walter Brennan, and we laugh, and bring each other the Advil."


"He shook his head, staring at her like a condemned man who beheld the face of his executioner. "Aline," he whispered, "Do you know what hell is?""Yes." Her eyes overflowed. "Trying to exist with your heart living somewhere outside your body.""No. It's knowing that you have so little faith in my love, you would have condemned me to a lifetime of agony." His face contorted suddenly. "To something worse than death."


"When we are loving, we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust."


"Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.'The first one. I really resent being called the second."


"The wolf demands her mate. But the woman loathes the man."



"He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do."


"He reached out a long arm and drew me in, holding me close against him. I put my arms around him and felt the quiver of his muscles, exhausted, and the sheer hard strength still in him, that would hold him up, no matter how tired he might be. We stood quite still for some time, my cheek against his chest and his face against my hair, drawing strength from each other for whatever might come next. Being married."


"The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense."



"I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing it's a common-sense thing."


"But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."


"Nobody knows you.You don't know yourself.And I, who am half in love with you,What am I in love with?My own imaginings?"



"Relationships dont always make sense, especially from the outside."


"Building on a bond is bankable. Building on bitterness is bankrupt."


"The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back."


"Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds."


"No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown."



"I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed."
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