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Relationship Quotes


"Don't value people to the extent they begin to feel they are indispensable."


"Your friends are—interesting," she said, making me snort. "I would hate to see your enemies." She looked back at me, black eyes assessing. "You did not mention that one of the 'friends' you risked your life for was desperately hoping he could rip your head off."
"I was a soldier of the Order," I said wearily. "He's the leader of a rogue dragon underground. I'm sure I've killed a few of his dragons in the past. I'm also stupidly in love with the girl he considers his, and we both know it."


"A man can deceive a women, so can a woman deceive a man; but if both are deceived its LOVE!"


"I remembered suddenly that Aspen had always been this way. He sacrificed sleep for me, he risked getting caught out after curfew for me, he scrounged together pennies for me. Aspen's generosity was harder to see because it wasn't as grand as Maxon's, but the heart behind what he gave was so much bigger."


"A closed heart opens no mind."


"I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me."


"I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage expecting you - he will make it up.'I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified; and I ran after him - he stood at the foot of the stairs."


"Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults."


"Having sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."


"With you, it's different. It's like a coming home."


"I'm just sorry your dragon is so hell bent on mating with someone as fucked up looking as me," he murmured, keeping his voice light even though he wasn't joking at all. God, everything about her was perfect. It was no surprise she was so resistant to mating with him....To his surprise, she snorted and smacked his stomach. "Bran Devlin, you're the sexiest male I've ever met. If you want me to stroke your ego you're out of luck."Then, to his utter fucking surprise, she slid her hand lower and grasped his already hardening cock before looking up at him. Her smile was an erotic mix of uncertainty and wickedness."But I don't mind stroking this."


"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."


"I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me, you'd better go."


"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."


"Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he's worthy to be called a friend."


"As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda."


"My feelings towards it can only be paralleled by that of a doting parent towards an idiot child."


"He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best."


"And you came to Finland to build a station?""No I came here on vacation to visit a friend.""That's good," the driver said. "Vacations and friends are the two best things in life."


"When I'm with you,I feel exposed.Naked. When I'm naked with you, I feel clothed.Sheltered."



"True friendship is self-love at second hand."


"You don't need scores of suitors. You need only one if he's the right one."


"When our sympathy leads to friendship and our friendship leads to love, only few will understand that it is the end of our past."


"Don't you love your mother, dear?""I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else."


"When abandoned women follow their fleeing males with tear-stained faces, screaming you can't do this to me, they reveal that all that they have offered in the name of generosity and altruism has been part of an assumed transaction, in which they were entitled to a certain payoff."


"With me: one minus one = one, with you: it's zero. Here lies the only difference."


"Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?"


"It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us."


"Keep people in your life who truly love you, motivate you, and make you happy. If you know people who do none of these things, let them go."


"You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not of the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."


"My perception of your beauty was far more erotic than your real beauty! Am I to be blamed for taking too much effort on my part in beautifying you or did you fail in seducing me?"



"Something now leaves me; something goes from me to meet that figure who is coming, and assures me that I know him before I see who it is. How curiously one is changed by the addition, even at a distance, of a friend. How useful an office one's friends perform when they recall us. Yet how painful to be recalled, to be mitigated, to have one's self adulterated, mixed up, become part of another. As he approaches I become not myself but Neville mixed with somebody - with whom? - with Bernard? Yes, it is Bernard, and it is to Bernard that I shall put the question, Who am I?"


"It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far."


"The Bible says that to have a friend we must show ourselves friendly. To that, I say, "Amen."


"Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage."


"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."


"The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe bodies die by the process of marriage that it seemed to celebrate a mystic double death with its ritual."


"Women are like shadows; when you chase them, they run from you; when you run from them, they chase you."


"Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them."


"Family, friends and relationships are the blessings of the God. They are the best way to access God."


"I do not know anything about 'all the good guys are taken' but I certainly know none of the beautiful girls are virgin."


"Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some, because their spouse or lover was, at that time, the primary source of their unhappiness."


"Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend."


"Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you deal with that?"


"We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in."


"Some wo/men are so possessive - you end up missing missing them."


"A man who boasts he's the head of the home must never forget the woman is the knife at his throat."



"Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry.""Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are kind."
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