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Relationship Quotes
"We're too different now. We want different things. And this?" I say nodding at our hands. "All this managed to prove is that you are extremely good at turning me off."
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"A love that requires constant attention is a doomed love."
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"Honour the way a stranger can make sense in your world. Most people have been around for years without shaking our core & then one small instant in time, we cross paths with that one person who before them we didn't know what we were exactly looking for. Over 6 billion people I share this planet with and I've only felt that soul shaking, jaw dropping connection 4 times. Believe me when I say it's rare and you definitely owe it to yourself to honour it."
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"Remember, if you cannot live with yourself, you cannot live with anyone else. The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person-without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other."
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"She didn't like it," he said immediately."Of course she did.""She didn't like it," he insisted. "She didn't have a good time."He was silent and I guessed at his unutterable depression."I feel far away from her," he said. "It's hard to make her understand.""You mean about the dance?""The dance?" He dismissed all the dances he had given with a snap of his fingers. "Old sport, the dance is unimportant."
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"The present was the thing--work to do and someone to love. But not to love too much, for he knew the injury that a father can do to a daughter or a mother to a son by attaching them too closely: afterward, out in the world, the child would seek in the marriage partner the same blind tenderness and, failing probably to find it, turn against love and life."
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"I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or serious or what. This bothered me. Or intrigued me. Or both."
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"But every now and then, when I steal a glance at the Girl, or feel her eyes on me, I helplessly drift back to thinking about her."
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"Loving yourself is required for authentic relationships."
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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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"He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites and escapes."
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"The impact of relationships can be subtle yet powerful. Make a conscious effort to them choose wisely."
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"There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity."
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"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."
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"She wasn't the only one who was overjoyed.Deacon had launched himself at Aiden-Aiden saintly St. Delphi-nearly knocking him backward, over a fallen pure. The brothers hugged, oblivious to those fighting around them. Other than their eyes, they absolutely had nothing in common.Which was why I liked Deacon."
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"Be with someone who willingly runs in the storm with you, not someone who cowers away because of turbulent winds."
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"I look at Ben now. And again I wonder how it is that we can feel so many of the same things and be so utterly different."
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"If two people truly have feelings for one another then they don't have an affair. They get a divorce and they sort out their feelings. You are accountable for the people you hold hostage in a marriage when your mind and heart refuse to fully commit to them."
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"Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived."
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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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"She was a monster, but she was my monster."
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"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."
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"There exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their own eons of transparent time."
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"You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you."
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"You will be my thunder. I'll be your lightning. Even the heavens will rage with jealousy."
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"I've tried to make choices. You don't really trust me to."
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"Eventually nothing will matter, this page, where you are sitting, your degree, your job, your money except love and human connection."
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"...after a pointless delay for the humans to collect all their toys and keepsakes, he was able to take his rightful place in Littlemouse's arms and heard them all in the proper direction."
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"As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end."
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"You really shouldn't trust a soul in this game. Not when everyone has something to gain or lose."
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"Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair."
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"So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person."
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"So by the time the morning came, Odysseus and I were indeed friends, as Odysseus had promised we would be. Or let me put it another way: I myself had developed friendly feelings towards him - more than that, loving and passionate ones - and he behaved as if he reciprocated them. Which is not quite the same thing."
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"Loving someone doesn't mean you have to bow down to them or drop everything and run to their relentless calls. They must understand and love you enough to give you the respect that you deserve. Loving someone doesn't mean you have to shower them with gifts all the time. Give them your honesty, hope, joy, and encouragement on a daily basis."
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"While I'm fine with you two dating and being happy, please try not to break his heart too much when the time comes."
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"I think you can love a person too much.You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else."
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"I loved you with texture. You loved with a softness. Texture brought detail, softness brought folds. Folds brought creases and creases had secrets."
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"Whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."
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"Not today. Not sitting next to Quinn who was semi-casual in black slacks and a gray sweater pushed up to his muscular forearms. Seriously, why did forearms have to be so sexy?Why did he have to be so sexy? And why did she have the ridiculous urge to reach out and stroke his sweater. She just wanted to see if it was as soft as it looked.Right."
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"Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life's expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work."
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"He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe."
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"I'm sorry that I can't be like you.I guess that it's time that you accepted that and then we can both get on with life."
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"Be with someone you don't want to be without."
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"A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was."
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"Marriage results in two possibilities: sometimes it results in prosperity, sometimes it results in destruction."
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"Sex with a married woman ten years his senior was stress free and fulfilling, because it couldn't lead to anything."
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"Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they'll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently."
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"Perception shows how deep one can understand an issue or a phenomenon, the mental strength."
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"I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting."
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