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Relationship Quotes
"There is a magic to intimacy, a world built of sighs and skin that is thicker than brick, stronger than iron. There is only you, and him, so impossibly close that nothing can come between. Not the enemy, not your allies. In this safe haven, in this hallowed place and time, I could even ask the questions whose answers I feared."
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"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."
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"There's always tomorrow." I followed him. "Tomorrow's not going to change anything.""We'll see.""There's nothing to see. You're wasting your time.""When it concerns you, it's never a waste of my time," he replied."
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"I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend."
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"Some days I wonder if I stopped writing about him, if I'd love him a little less."
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"People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult."
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"Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still."
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"Everyone needs a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up."
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"Is it weird that I think it's hot when you boss me around?" Her gaze snapped up to his, her blue eyes darkening with unmistakable hunger.... "I can take bossing you around to a whole other level if you'd like," she murmured."
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"When you part from your friend, you grieve not;For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, asthe mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain."
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"Always try to come back to your senses when in love, because that's the moment you become almost carried away by sensuality and sentiments."
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"You know I love you. You're the only one.""She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge, a key to open women. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them."
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"New friends can often have a better time together than old friends."
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"It wasn't like there was some obvious change. Actually, the problem was more a lack of change. Nothing about her had changed - the way she spoke, her clothes, the topics she chose to talk about, her opinions - they were all the same as before. Their relationship was like a pendulum gradually grinding to a halt, and he felt out of synch."
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"It was God who gave a man's rib to a woman. But it is man who must learn to give away his heart and never take it back."
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"Love is not the foundation for marriage, people normally get married to someone they think, they are in love with. Can I say to you that love does not make marriage work, don't be fooled by that funny feeling, don't get married because you love someone. I love aircraft but I can't fly them, I failed two times my pilot license, I love cars but I failed two times in the driving school made it on the third time. I love diving but not yet ready to go to diving school.You can love something and still don't know how to do it. So love is not the problem but the knowledge.I still maintain love doesn't make marriage work but knowledge and understanding. . Acquire enough knowledge before going into it."
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"Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart."
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"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
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"Even if you communicate sincerely and your intentions are upright, if people don't have trust, they speculate your every move..."
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"She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to listen to Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. It almost feels like of the three things involved: Mary Elizabeth, me, and the great things, only the first one matters to Mary Elizabeth. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them."
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"I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too."
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"The family was God's idea, not our own, and it is still a wonderful institution."
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"A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted."
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"Do you love me?What?Do you?I love you. I don't know if I trust you.Maybe you shouldn't do either.Maybe I'm the one who should decide!"
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"Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive."
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"No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation."
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"Before a Cat will condescendTo treat you as a trusted friend,Some little token of esteemIs needed, like a dish of cream;And you might now and then supplySome caviare, or Strassburg Pie,Some potted grouse, or salmon paste -He's sure to have his personal taste.(I know a Cat, who makes a habitOf eating nothing else but rabbit,And when he's finished, licks his pawsSo's not to waste the onion sauce.)A Cat's entitled to expectThese evidences of respect.And so in time you reach your aim,And finally call him by his name."
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"So that's why I say 'never have anything you can't walk away from.' Especially a woman. For them, because this is a dangerous life we lead and you never know if or when it will blow back on those close to you.""And for you, because trust me when I tell you there exists no greater perdition than the guilt of causing the death of someone you love."
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"The single biggest thing I've done to improve my relationship with others, was to improve the relationship I have with myself. I became lovable when I was able to love myself. No one can love you, if you don't love you. Accept, nurture and love yourself as you are. You'll be amazed how much it will also change how others perceive you."
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"I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this."
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"There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding."
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"When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course, he saw that her self-effacing proposal was quite irrelevant. All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. Love and patience- if only he had had them both at once- would surely have seen them both through."
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"Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers."
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"I deserve more. I mean I understand I do. Once you've protected someone the way you protected me, you get well, protective. But I'm no longer that sixteen-year-old girl, Archer. I'm a grown woman."
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"Love without restraint makes one saint and the other faint the sweetest face and the tenderest embrace bring the sun to every place in such grace."
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"You've come to give me a piece of your mind. You know that phrase is really beautiful. The mind is the most powerful thing in the body. Whatever the mind believes, the body can achieve. So to give someone a piece of it... well thank you. Funny how people are always intent on giving it to the people they dislike when it really should be for the ones they love."
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"Marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties."
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"I'm sorry, I whispered. "I never wanted this for you. This life, I knew it was going to kill me in the end. I wish you didn't have to be here when it finally caught up."
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"I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse."
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"Let there be spaces in your togetherness."
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"But you will find yourself disarmed utterly, and your accusing spirit transformed into loving forgiveness the moment you remember that you did, in fact, marry only a sinner, and so did he."
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"Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it."
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"Why must man not marry?" "He cannot marry. He cannot marry," he said angrily. "If he is to lose everything, he should not place himself in a position to lose that. He should not place himself in a position to lose. He should find things he cannot lose."
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"Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain."
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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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"There is one experience that brings joy or happiness to every living being. The experience of love."
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"There are three people in your life: your great love, the one you want to have children with, and the one whom you can spend the rest of your life with. If you find that last one first, you have it made."
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"It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party."
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"You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening."
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"Even when told to trust no one, the truth is, no one feels comfortable around people they cannot trust."
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