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Relationship Quotes


"But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open."


"You both have grown up feeling as if you weren't properly loved by those who should have loved you the most. People make mistakes. They make wrong choices at the worst moments. Never at any time were you not lovedKnow this. Cherish this. Love one another and be courageous enough to live your life and love more. Don't let fear trap you."



"Maybe he didn't really encourage me to do things, but he didn't prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me. But the thing is, I wasn't being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't really even know me?"


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


"Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both."


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


"I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names."


"We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box."


"If you don't play with relations and respect to love you may get hurt And spend life in pain but you will die in rest."


"Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too."


"My husband would not give me an opportunity for worship. That was his greatness. They are cowards who claim absolute devotion from their wives as their right, that is a humiliation for both."


"He must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing.I couldn't look at him. 'What makes you say that?' Gavril sighed. 'I've known Maxon since he was a child. He's never stood up to his father like that."


"Fuck," he said, sliding his hands down to my thighs. "You're making this very hard to be the good guy you said I was last night.""I'm not drunk."He pressed his forehead to mine, chuckling softly. "Yeah, I can see that and while the idea of taking you right now, against the wall, is enough to make me lose control, I want you to know that I'm serious. You're not a hook up. You're not a friend with benefits. You're more than that to me."I closed my eyes, breathing heavily. "Well, that was...really sort of perfect."


"I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other being good to each other."


"A righteous husband is a responsible husband."


"I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the pleasure of your company. Animals aren't conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you're sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness."


"Instinctively I started to panic when Dr. Martinez strapped my arm down, andthen the panic just melted away, la la la.Someone took my other hand. Fang. I felt his calluses, his bones, hisstrength."I'm so glad you're here, I slurred, smiling dopily up at him. I took inhis startled, worried expression but dismissed it. "I know everything's fineif you're here.I thought I saw his cheeks flush, but I wasn't too sure of anything anymore."


"Trust is tough since it involves that quixotic mix of integrity, vulnerability, and intimacy. But trust anyway."



"My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children."


"They said a lot of things to each other that night, but nothing that involved words."


"This is what we desire in intimate relationships but this deep connection is often so frightful that most do not take advantage of the opportunities presented for honesty."


"Man's best support is a very dear friend."


"When you are your own best friend, you don't endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own."


"A secure attachment is the ability to bond, to develop a secure and safe base..."


"The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant."


"Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect."


"With every breath I take, I will always love you."


"The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage."


"Only Some people feel what is love Others Just practice sex."


"A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity."


"Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he'll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won't stop til you're his."



"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."


"I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck."


"Connect with someone on a deeper level mentally, spiritually, emotionally and your soul will transcend the height of ecstasy."


"Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want."


"No man wants to feel that he's there because of his woman's biological clock or because he's filling a job opening for husband or significant other."


"A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves."


"In spite of all the sparring that went on between us, I sort of liked Morelli. Good judgment told me to stand clear of him, but then I've never been a slave to good judgment."


"I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me."


"It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.It's not a weakness.It's your best strength."


"I still had my hand on his side, careful not to press. He reached out and hooked a finger into the belt loop on my jeans. It felt so natural, so fulfilling, to be there with him. To talk with him as if we did it everyday. As if we'd been doung it every day for years. Not even the heat of Ian's fury could penetrate the warmth I was getting from Reyes."


"A master like Raoul looks for a woman whose need to serve and submit matches his need to protect and take command."


"You cannot love if you cannot forgive."



"It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things."


"I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria.But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense.All friendships are negotiations of power."


"Sex is like crying, it does look pretty if you really do it."


"Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love."



"Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend."


"I think sex with him might undo my essential cellular cohesion."


"Every so often i'd wake up when his arms clenched around me, his embrace so tight i thought he'd cut off my circulation, holding me as if even in his sleep he was haunted by the fear of losing me."
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