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Relationship Quotes


"Be the kind of person who is a joy to be around. Caring for and loving others brings out the best in you and keeps your heart open to the unspoken and deeply buried needs of others."


"So I get to be the bitch now? Fine. Then you, my friend, are the scary girl. 'He doesn't hit me. He doesn't abuse me. He doesn't cheat on me.' Can you hear yourself? If those are the standards you have--hey, he hasn't punched me, so everything must be okay!--that scares me. That makes me think that at some point you've used these justifications. 'Oh, it's really bad right now, and he's being awful...but at least he's not hitting me. Have a little more respect for yourself than that, okay?"


"But it was a matter of great consolation to her, that what brought evil to herself would bring good to her sister; and Elinor, on the other hand, suspecting that it would not be in her power to avoid Edward entirely, comforted herself by thinking, that though their longer stay would therefore militate against her own happiness, it would be better for Marianne than an immediate return into Devonshire."


"They may have forgotten how badly they treated you, or they may pretend that they have forgotten. But watch: They will come back to you."


"So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?"


"Be cautious when associating with those who have little or no value or appreciation for time."


"Now that the day is almost done, the world of glass recedes, the butterfly threat diminishes. I imagine that we're both here in this bed, that my invisible body is nestled against hers. We are breathing at the same pace, our chests rising and falling in unison. We have no need to whisper, because at this distance, all we need is thought. Our eyes close at the same time. We feel the same sheets against us, the same night. Our breath slows together. We split into different versions of the same dreams. Sleep takes us at the exact same time."


"An awesome friend is everything."


"Because I am in love with you. Because I cannot be around you for fear you will finally see what is written across my heart. Because the pain of you is one I cannot bear."



"I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man."


"You really need better spatial awareness. A familiar, deep voice from behind her made her jump out of her skin.Feeling almost numb, she turned to find Graysen West standing there-and looking way too sexy for his own good. Or for her own good. She'd thought she was completely alone in the elevator.She blinked once. Yep, he was still there. Well over six feet of raw masculinity, bright blue eyes she could drown in, and a disapproving frown that somehow made him look sexy.Isa felt almost possessed as she lashed out. A year of built-up anger and hurt came bursting to the surface. Her arm was moving before she'd processed what she was doing but when her fist connected with his nose, she cursed at the pain that jolted through her hand. Punching someone hurt."


"It is not what we do it is how much love we put in the doing."


"A relationship could be a place to hide too."


"The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end, after many years of partnership."



"Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge."


"She's pretty in a way that distracts me just like she did in the Skiz ring. No, pretty's not the right word. Beautiful."


"If your words, actions and intentions are not genuine, I have no use for you or room for you in my life."


"I have a feeling,' he said, 'I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the good fight, side by side, in the past or in the future, I do not know. I am a rational man, but I have learned the value of a good companion, and from the moment I clapped eyes on you, I knew I trusted you as well as I do myself. Yes, I want you with me."


"I feel like my life started the moment I met you," he murmured."


"As you see the need to change your partner to save the relationship, it is then time to end it."


"Friends are folks who excuse you when you have made a fool of yourself."


"If you didn't understand the need for friendship or love, could you be lonely?"


"They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her."


"Find out how Claude and Kelly end up from being Friends 2 Lovers as you follow them through their disappointing, confusing, loving, shocking,encouraging, and romantic moments. But can their bond last and withstand all the challenges that cross their way?"


"Depending on the strength of the relationship, level of communication and one's tolerance for discord, many people are able to get past normal skirmishes unscathed."


"If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine."


"But he didn't need to seek visual confirmation of what he'd just heard to know she had. And the truth was, he couldn't blame her. He'd not have let her die, either. He'd have moved mountains. He'd have battled God or Devil for his wife's life. She'd betrayed him. He smiled faintly."


"Burying themselves in his arm was more about feeling his love in the confusion, in the difficulty, than it was about having moved past it."


"I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles."


"It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great."


"The trouble with fashions is you want to fuck the women in their fashions but when the time comes they always take them off so they don't get wrinkled.Face it, the really great fucks in a man's life was when there was no time to take yr clothes off, you were too hot and she was too hot - none of yr Bohemian leisure, this was middleclass explosions against snowbanks, against walls of shithouses in attics, on sudden couches in the lobby - Talk about yr hot peace."


"So many days in their shared life. So many experiences. How had they managed to spend the previous sixteen years unlearning each other? How had all the presence summed to disappearance?"


"Why surround yourself with people who constantly pull you back, when you could be with those who would push you forward to the land of abundance?"


"Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms."


"You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away."


"Maybe I shouldn't have told you""about it being electrical. She put her hand out, touched his arm; she felt guilty, seeing the effect it had on him, the change."No," Rick said. "I'm glad to know. Or rather""" He became silent. "I'd prefer to know."


"We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy."


"Above Constance's desk were nude photographs of women in 1930s France, draped in provocative poses. She had put them there for Bob's viewing pleasure and in return he had placed African art of naked men above his desk for her."


"What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first."


"He hasn't an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him."


"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."


"You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel."


"I read one study that indicated when a couple has been together for approximately three hundred hours, even most of those who are trying to be moral will do things they didn't intend originally. They may not even realize that is where the relationship is headed until it happens."


"I never expected you to understand, but I did expect you to be there."


"They tell us the greatest love story is how water fell in love with fire. Or how satan fell in love with God. But the greatest love story to me is how I didn't notice myself falling, when I fell in love with you."


"You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter."


"It should be a privilege to be able to say "I love you" to someone. It shouldn't be something people say just because they feel like it. A privilege that is earned. They say you have to earn the right to be loved; no, love is unconditional, if you love someone, they don't have to earn it. But. The right to tell someone that you love them? That has to be earned. You have to earn the right to be believed."


"And sometimes being in love is not enough to make it work."


"I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!"
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