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Relationship Quotes



"There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy."


"The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You've never learned to communicate your feelings to a man. You don't even want to communicate in a relationship. You think that if you open up to love, you'll lose your independence or your self-expression or creativity or whatever you call all that passionate, wonderful stuff that makes you feel alive inside."


"Loving yourself is required for authentic relationships."


"When your soulmate cries your heart weeps."


"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards."


"Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to."


"Not only will you sleep with me, but you will say 'please.'"I stared at him, shocked. The smile widened. "You will say 'please' before and 'thank you' after." Nervous laughter bubbled up. "You've gone insane. All that peroxide in your hair finally did your brain in, Goldilocks."


"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."


"I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony."


"It was electric and we couldn't deny it anymore, even when our words spoke different the energy we drew from each-other spoke too loud, it was almost impossible to ignore."


"Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow."


"Love is a power which produces love."


"Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others."


"I should like to see any kind of a man distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of."


"Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them."



"Hilda and I slept alongside each other fully dressed, head to feet."


"So here I was expecting at the very best a cordial welcome from the girls who were prepared to fight me to the death for someone I didn't want. Instead I was embraced."


"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out."


"Ask your wife for forgiveness, even when you're right."


"Don't marry someone with intolerable characteristics in the hopes of changing him or her. If you can't live with someone who drinks or someone who isn't a Christian or someone who isn't clean, then don't marry that kind of person. The chances for miraculous improvements or changes in behavior are slim. What you see is what you get!"


"She shook off his grip. "I am what I am, and I don't particularly care what you think of me. "Well, I care what you think of me. I care enough that I stayed at this disgusting party for you. And I care enough that I'd attend a thousand more like it so I can spend a few hours with you when you aren't looking at me like I'M not worth the dirt beneath your shoes."


"I could take revenge, i could give pain, But i do not know how to be such a cheapSo hurt to one,i love you more than my life to whom always i speak."


"Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she'd spent her hours in the dark wondering whether she'd ever liked him. Would it really have been so much worse to spend those years alone? Why did there have to be someone else in the room while she was eating, watching TV, sleeping?"


"You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you."


"Wyatt pushed out a rough breath. "You're going to make this no-sex thing impossible, aren't you?" She grinned and snagged another bite for herself. "Not any more than you're going to make it for me."


"Your Temporary Santa, "He says presents aren't important, but I think they are- not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say 'I understand you."


"Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach."


"What can I tell you about the alchemy of twins?Twins are two bodies that dance to each other's joy.Two minds that drownin each other's despair.Two spirits that flywith each other's love.Twins are two separate beingsconjoined at the heart!"


"Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody-so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?"


"The people who are happy for your happiness and sad for your sadness... keep them around."


"I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic."


"As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end."


"They disagreed always about this, but it did not matter. She liked him to believe in scholarships, and he liked her to be proud of Andrew whatever he did."


"Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.""Oh! my dear Love, I know. You want reality. So do I. What's between us will last for ever because it's founded on reality."


"It was gratitude; gratitude, not merelyfor having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him."


"You can't lift a relationship up if you keep walking over the other person's mistakes."


"Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions, bad sex is about blocked emotions."


"In a relationship, when trust is lost, everything is lost."


"I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating."


"When both partners strive for a marriage that honours and pleases God, they can be assured of an everlasting joy and peace."


"She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time."


"I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day."


"Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees-breaking up isn't something that gets done to you, it's something that happens with you."


"You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it."


"You don't need scores of suitors. You need only one if he's the right one."


"I loved you with texture. You loved with a softness. Texture brought detail, softness brought folds. Folds brought creases and creases had secrets."


"It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth."



"I didn't know who tobelievebutone thing I doknow: when a man islivingmany claim relationshipsthat are hardlysoand after he dies, well,then it's everybody'sparty."


"I'm not letting you go, Fallon.Her throat seized at his words. "Brad-""You don't have to say anything. "I'm just laying it out there."


"Most people who are would each not be in love with their partner, if they did not have the kind of genitals they have."
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