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Relationship Quotes


"Kind words produce their images on men's souls."


"My second wife - I was still young then - she left me, and I made the mistake of winning her back. It took me years to lose her again after that. She was a good woman. It is not easy to lose a good woman. If one must marry it is better to marry a bad woman."


"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."


"Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing."


"My affection for you is not my problem."


"You think he has no will of his own? You are a fool,Charlotte. Lie with him instead of me!' I laughed at her, and seeing the pain in her eyes, I laughed more.'I should like to see it, you and your daimon. Lie there and call him to come now."


"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?"


"Raw love, like raw heart-ache, could blindside you."



"She's wonderful. Tell her I've never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.Waddington, smiling, translated the question."She says I'm good."As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue, Kitty mocked."



"Then it hit me and I just blurted, 'I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them."


"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'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."


"If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty."



"With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes - one of the tragedies of married life."


"The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends."


"It's scary to trust and fall in love with someone, isn't it? You accept someone and welcome them to your world. You show each of your voids. You show how dark it is, inside you and how scary it is, to stay there. And one day they will leave. Adding more voids into you making the older one a lot bigger, and making you get darker and scarier than before inside."


"Ladies, a man doesn't want respect, he needs it. A man does not need love. There is no where it is written that a man needs love. They simply needs respect. A man interprets respect as love.When a woman tells a man that she loves him, it doesn't mean anything to him, but when a man knows you respects him, that means a whole lot to him."


"Relationships abhor a vacuum. Whenever one person refuses to mark and fight for their territory the other person will occupy the treasured ground either by default or by committing an act of aggression."



"The battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight."


"But remember the overall lesson, that your love for others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters."



"If I broke her heart, her image of me would break too."


"I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same."



"You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other."


"Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not f*ck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."


"Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path - and that person could even be you."


"I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one."


"Biggest truth of life , which we all must accept.how beautiful love looks in movies and in books in real life it's absolutely opposite.more than 90 % people play game on the name of love and more than 90% people get betrayed.in real life love there is no respect or love and there is no value of beloved person feeling and emotions.many people come out from hell and start new life but the dirty part of it this many of die in that pain which another no one can not understand and can not feel."


"The surest way to be alone is to get married."


"Don t make people feel necessarily happy. Make them feel useful."


"One act of betrayal can shatter a lifetime of trust."


"Your love was a vine - enchanting and beautiful, crawling around my heart and up my throat; then it strangled me. Your love, hauntingly tragic."



"The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices-after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's."


"He counts as an ex because he made me feel dumped even without making me feel loved first."



"You are my wine, my joy,My garden, my springtime,My slumber, my repose,Without you, I can't cope."


"Whether the woman shares the man's passion or not, whether she is willing or unwilling to satisfy it, she always repulses him and defends herself, though not always with the same vigour, and therefore not always with the same success."


"If she does not respect you, she will replace you."


"People should avoid hatred at all costs, because not only does it affect the haters health; it also prevents them from enjoying the goodness of love."


"To have the beautiful relationship you want, you and your partner must share your life stories with each other, holding nothing back. That sharing includes any past experiences of brutality, traumas, rape, incest, and emotional or mental torture of any kind that either of you has experienced as well as the wonderful memories you each cherish."


"The test of any relationship is, when the going gets tough, whether your partner stays with you or 'gets going'."


"I don't lose. Do you hear me? I don't lose and that includes losing you. I'm done being kept in the dark. Im done feeling like you're slipping right past me. You are not saying goodbye to me. I'm in love with you and you love me back. You are staying."



"I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have. I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist."


"If he had to spend the evening with madwomen, he would prefer at least one of them be willing to let him grope her."


"Staying in a relationship with someone who doesn't love him/herself, is a direct reflection of how much you love and value yourself."


"Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child."


"If I knew he loved me for my wealth, I would have told him I was richer."


"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory."


"The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for courtesy; but just in proportion to their approach the gentleness of most men diminishes."


"Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men."


"Because in the past words have only driven them apart."
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