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Relationship Quotes
"I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together."
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"A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity."
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"I asked Patrick if he felt sad that he had to keep it a secret, and Patrick just said that he wasn't sad because at least now, Brad doesn't have to get drunk or stoned to make love."
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"Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment and it helped me. It has always helped me."
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"If he didn't hate me so much and he wasn't an evil supernatural being, I'd be on him like black on Cookie's toast.That woman could not make toast."
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"Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ourselves, that person seems at once to belong to a different universe, is surrounded with poetry, makes of our lives a vast expanse, quick with sensation, on which that person and ourselves are ever more or less in contact."
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"One act of betrayal can shatter a lifetime of trust."
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"All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart."
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"Touched by an act of kindness, be kind to others."
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"They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other."
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"Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
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"Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike."
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"Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded."
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"Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman)."
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"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
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"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."
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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
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"How many people are watching a movie right now, or reading a book or listening to a song or looking into their life or dreaming with this profound, conscious or not, yearning more than anything for some kind of relationship somewhere with someone or something that would cause them to stagger in intimate rawness in friendship and love?"
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"A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist a wonderful living side by side can grow up if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky."
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"Yes. This. It was just what she needed, because here, held by him like this, her guilt, her regret, her fears . . . all of it gave way to this heady, languid sensation of being desired and she didn't want it to stop.Any of it."
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"I guess it can't be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they're making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there."
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"Their gazes locked and held for a long beat, like maybe he was taking her pulse from across the room, absorbing the fact that she was drenched and breathless. The corners of his mouth twitched. She'd amused him again."
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"As I see it, you GET married - but you MAKE a marriage."
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"When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt-you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it's crippling-like having your heart carved out."
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"Friends ask you questions, enemies question you."
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"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?"
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"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."
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"He stared at her. "How is it that you're cute, sexy as hell, and smarter than anyone I know?She gave him a small smile. "It's a gift."
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"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."
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"You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while? "Mmm, I said. "I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house?"
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"The grandeur of a profession is...above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships."
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"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."
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"Alexandra had been married for thirty-three years; if it had made any impression on her one way or another, she never showed it."
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"Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time."
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"We are becoming the men we wanted to marry."
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"First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just bought you a cake, you'd better think twice before devouring your misery."
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"Building trust takes long- years, sometimes decades. It takes a second, a word, or a misstep to lose it. Regaining trust takes even longer."
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"My enemies don't scared me .. but the people who say I love you."
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"As Unto the bow the the cord is ,So unto the man is woman;Though she bends him, she obeys him,Though she draws him , yet she follows:Useless each without the other."
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"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."
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"Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse."
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"My affection for you is not my problem."
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"Sam looked at me soft. And she hugged me. And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms."
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"He rocked her against him. "No idea what I'm going to do with you." She didn't know what he was going to do with her either, but she hoped it was good."
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"What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?"
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"Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?"
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"Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he's worthy to be called a friend."
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"People divulge things to you that they would not divulge to anyone else."
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"We ought to compliment and not to compete with one another."
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"The few people who earned my respect are those who are predictable in their character but totally unpredictable the way they think!"
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