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Relationship Quotes


"Fantasies can be great, but we shouldn't make the wedding a fantasy, because the wedding is the gateway to married life. It shouldn't be a moment of illusion; it should be a moment of preparation."


"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."



"I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me!He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!"


"Everytime, he breaks your heart. And everytime, he expects me to pick up the pieces."



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


"For some women, they need a man. For others, men need them."


"Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public."


"Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins."



"I wanted us to share all our lives. You wish to keep me in a box, separate from your life. I cannot be someone you come to when you have nothing more important to do."



"If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere."



"The low-tone clarinet moans. The door upstairs opens again. Stella slips down the rickety stairs in her robe. Her eyes are glistening with tears and her hair loose about her throat and shoulders. They stare at each other. Then they come together with low, animal moans. He falls to his knees on the steps and presses his face to her belly, curving a little with maternity. Her eyes go blind with tenderness as she catches his head and raises him level with her. He snatches the screen door open and lifts her off her feet and bears her into the dark flat."


"When you know who matters most to you, giving things up, even yourself, doesn't really feel like a sacrifice."


"When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself."


"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."


"Sure, he was attracted to her, but women always had to go beyond that.Women [had] nesting fantasies. It wasn't long before they wereredecorating your apartment and criticizing your choice of mustard."


"His ears caught a sweet chiming noise, and a moment later a warm rush fell over his body. How we doing Rhage? Too hot? Butch's voice. Up close. The cop was in the shower with him. And he smelled Turkish tobacco. V must be in the bathroom too. Hollywood? This too hot for you? No. He reached around for the soap, fumbling. Can't see. Just as well. No reason for you to know what we look naked together. Frankly, I'm traumatized enough for the both of us. Rhage smiled a little as a washcloth scrubbed over his face, neck and chest."


"Trying to change someone to suit your desires is a setup for disappointment."


"I would have you come into the heart of the outer world and meet reality. Merely going on with your household duties, living your life in the world of household conventions and the drudgery of household tasks - you were not made for that! If we meet, and recognize each other, in the real world, then only will our love be true."


"For a permanent solution to easing tension and soothe the rough waters of the world that cause people to go to drugs, drinking, gambling, pornography, overeating, or anything that will give them some temporary relief, you can't beat the support and encouragement of a friend."



"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."


"All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere."



"Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget."


"Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I've been telling you about. You can see for yourself that everything I've said is an understatement."


"If sex is a journey, orgasm is the both the purpose and journey's end."


"An anchor should be someone who is personally open and willing to communicate."


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


"She's my kitten, and no one else's."


"I see how he feels about his world and I want to be one of the parts he prizes. I want to be worth fighting for. Worth the same kind of effort he puts into the things that matter to him. Like Dani.'I don't tell her no human matters to the boss like Dani."



"Applying parents values back to them allot of the time is like trying to pay back a guy who is a counterfeiter with his own counterfeit bills. "No, your supposed to think this is real money. I know it's not. I'm only pretending this is real money to get away with something. I don't actually want to receive it because I know it's fake money."


"Before you and your spouse can work as a team raising your children, you must first work as a team in your marriage."


"People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard."


"The gap between compassion and surrender is love's darkest, deepest region."


"When She Needs a Reminder of Your Birthdate, Make Sure Not to Remind Her That She was Once a part Of Your Life."


"All right," Mom said. She gave Samuel a stern look,"Now I don't know what's going on between you and my daughter and Adam Hauptman-""Neither do we," I mutteredSamuel grinned "We have it pretty well worked out as far as the sex goes. Adam gets it-someday-and I don't. But the rest is still up for negotiation."


"If communication is lost everything is lost in a relationship."


"Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C."


"You're very lovely, gatita."Her brows pulled together, and she gave him a skeptical stare."Do not look at your master as if he's an idiot."



"I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us."


"In every relationship one must sacrifice to show thy love. Are you willing to make sacrifices for someone you love?"


"Thomas make it easy to cave to temptation with his golden - blond hair, muscle from head to toe and sexy brooding expression a few girls have written about in poems."


"I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together."


"How could he maintain the apology in his eyes without getting carried away by her cherubic innocence?"


"She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion."



"Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie."


"Outer relationships with a man or a woman are a mirror of the relationship between our own inner man and woman. Embracing our own inner man and woman means to understand the inner drama that happens between our male and female aspects, which manifests on the outside as relationships."


"It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing."


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


"Relationships are an art form created by two or more individuals who have similar or complementary visions, passions, and ambitions."


"It is better to be alone than in bad company."
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