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Relationship Quotes
"Every one needs someone and there is someone for everyone."
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"Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover."
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"Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete."
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"We fell in love and heard thousands of words in every silence between us. Then we fell apart and heard only silence in thousands of words we spoke to each other."
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"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's."
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"One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated with. To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you can make. It has very little to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not."
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"A woman may be looked upon as an object for sexual satisfaction but her multifarious roles and diversified approaches make her a complex being which man has not been able to understand."
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"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."
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"Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost."
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"I do love that tune - but really, I must go home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes."
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"People are drawn to you because you make them feel happy, I understand that. But wouldn't it be nice to have people flock to you wishing for your happiness?"
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"People decide they like one another, based upon the color of their shells that they wear on the outside of them. And then they decide to leave one another, based upon the color of their souls that is who they really are underneath the shell. I think it should be the other way around. I think people should decide they like one another, based upon the color of their souls and then decide to leave one another if they run into the shells. But then it's not even that. What if they loved the soul and then broke down each others' shells when they ran into them? Then nobody would leave anybody and everybody would know what love means."
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"A man dies as often as he loses his friends."
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"Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it's just friendship, without friendship it's just lust."
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"I got married in Florence, Italy. My husband and I were in love but totally broke, so we eloped and got married in Italy, where he was going on a business trip. We had to pull a guy off the street to be our witness. It was incredibly romantic. Florence is still one of my favorite cities in the world."
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"It's a lot harder to get someone out of your life than it is to let them in, so take your time!"
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"It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate."
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"A good man measures his life not in the number of his years but in the quality of his friends."
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"Never blame a woman when you can't handle her!"
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"She brought a chair into the room and placed it alongside the top of his bed. Then she held his hand as he drifted off to sleep. It was so small in her own hand, and it felt warm and dry. She pressed his hand gently, and his fingers returned the pressure, but only just, as he was almost asleep by then. She remembered, but not very well, what it was to fall asleep holding the hand of another; how precious such an experience, how fortunate those to whom it was vouchsafed by the gods of Friendship, or of Love. She thought she had forgotten that, but now she remembered."
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"There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature."
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"I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him."
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"I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief."
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"She was sewing together the little proofs of his devotion out of which to make a garment for her tattered love and faith. He cut into the faith with negligent scissors, and she mended and sewed and rewove and patched. He wasted, and threw away, and could not evaluate or preserve, or contain, or keep his treasures. Like his ever torn pockets, everything slipped through and was lost, as he lost gifts, mementos--all the objects from the past. She sewed his pockets that he might keep some of their days together, hold together the key to the house, to their room, to their bed. She sewed the sleeve so he could reach out his arm and hold her, when loneliness dissolved her. She sewed the lining so that the warmth would not seep out of their days together, the soft inner skin of their relationship."
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"Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip."No, the divorce was great, I said. "It was the marriage that sucked."
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"I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic."
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"Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn't return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different."
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"He's an egotistical dickhead who's going to chew you up and spit you out; and you have a really awful history of falling for assholes that you ought to run screaming from; and I don't feel like sitting around listening to you try to convince yourself you don't still feel something for Campbell Alexander when, in fact, you've spent the past fifteen years trying to fill in the hole he made inside you."
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"We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends."
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"You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage."
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"A marriage is meant to be a blessing on the world, because it is a context in which two people might become more than what they would have been alone. The entire world is healed by the presence of healed people."
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"If I blink she'll disappear," he told her. She looked at him and said,"Maybe that is the best thing for you."
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"I almost thought that marriage was a cure to loneliness, alas! so many are lonely inside marriage. Then I realized it's not marriage that takes the loneliness away, but when both within marriage honour God and the vows made before Him."
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"I love you for a great many reasons and despite a great many others."
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"Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships."
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"What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?"
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"Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years."
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"You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life.After they were gone?That was all you thought about.Day and night."
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"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"
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"One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give."
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"Make no mistake-we don't trust each other, not by any stretch of the imagination."
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"We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them."
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"There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him...Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive?"
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"The only depth where I can breathe, and don't need to fight for air, is in your love."
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"June will break your heart. I can see it already. She'll shatter you into a million pieces."
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"We are often so convinced that we are so hurt and in pain, so much so that we opt not to forgive. Yet, as a consequence, that is what will make you weak!"
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"A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours."
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"You may control people physically by force, but you won't change their hearts and minds-that requires trust and friendship."
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