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Relationship Quotes
"Do you want me because you love me or because I provide you normality drag?"
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"I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member."
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"Here's what I think. We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our family. Then we get it from our friends. And then, for whatever reasons, we get it in our heads that we need to get that feeling- that intimacy- from a single someone else. We call if growing up. But really, when you take sex out of it, what we want is a companion. And we make that so damn hard to find."
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"I kept trying to talk myself out of my second thoughts when they were trying to help me. My advice? When it comes to relationships, second thoughts should be promoted."
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"So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?"And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say."Always," I say to him. "Every time."
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"You must love. When you love, you have self control. When you have self control, you have freedom. Freedom leads to intimacy sharing. Remember you are responsible for your own choice, decision and limit."
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"I knew I loved you when I kept trying to run away and find reasons why it wouldn't work."
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"You are not supposed to go out and find love. Love will find you when you are ready."
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"And yeah, I know most people would think it weird that two guy friends touch as much as we do, but when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too. This is how we work. I hope you get to choose your family and I hope it means as much to you as mine does to me."
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"Her lips curved up then, as if she liked his answer. "Are you working tomorrow?Dax nodded. "Yeah. Training stuff. He was running weapons-training exercises with three of his guys and a small team of DEA agents. They liked to do joint operations, especially in Miami, where there was a smorgasbord of government agencies. But he couldn't tell her that."When do you get off?The way she said "get off brought up all sorts of images. Hannah must have read his expression, because she shook her head. "Pervert, she muttered.He grinned, liking the camaraderie between them, as if part of that wall she'd erected had been knocked down."
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"You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words."
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"When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment."
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"Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend."
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"This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do - and wouldn't last."
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"I want to make it crystal fucking clear that you're it for me, I screwed up before. Big time. I own it. And now I'm going to win you back."
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"Close! stand close to me, Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. By the green land; by the bright hearthstone! this is the magic glass, man; I see my wife and my child in thine eye. No, no; stay on board, on board!- lower not when I do; when branded Ahab gives chase to Moby Dick. That hazard shall not be thine. No, no! not with the far away home I see in that eye!"
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"Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex."
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"The third element of love is mudita, joy. True love always brings joy to ourselves and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love."
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"You threw everything away."I bring a hand up to touch her face,to wipe the rain from her eyelashes."Your entire life-your beliefs...Why would you do that for me?"June has never looked more beautiful than she does now,unadorned and honest,vulnerable yet invincible.When lightning streaks over the sky,her dark eyes shine like gold."Because you were right,"she whispers."About all of it."
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"Sometimes the MOM who's always there for everyone else, needs someone to be there for HER."
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"We can only love one another deeply from the heart, for there is home of sacredness."
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"Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble."
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"For the past eight or so months their pack had been dealing with one issue after another from violent anti-paranormal maniacs to crazy vampires. It was nice that the only thing they had on their plate now was a bet for how soon two of their packmates would finally get together."
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"I don't know,' she said. 'We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married. And now I feel so sort of strange and everything. I feel so sort of alone."
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"The world is a chaotic place find a love that doesn't allow a home to have the same feeling."
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"Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make."
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"Families are wonderful institution,' he said. 'I value mine more than I can possibly say. But each of us has an individual life to live, our own path to tread, our own destiny to forge. You can imagine, if you will, how my family wished to shelter and protect me and do my living for me so that I would never again know fear or pain or abandonment. Eventually I had to step clear of them-or I might have fallen into the temptation of allowing them to do just that."
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"Do not risk your life for someone who doesn't care about you."
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"Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely."
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"Every success and failure of any relationship is two-sided. No matter how thin, the pancake always has two sides. Yes, I blew my marriages. And so did they."
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"Ideally, love is unconditional; practically, it is more often the opposite."
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"The best way to love your man, is to help him rise, let him feel his worth so strongly through your eyes; that he has no option but to become greater."
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"Friendship is a union of spirits a marriage of hearts and the bond there of virtue."
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"Everyone in your life gives you something. The bad ones give you experience, the worst ones a lesson; the good ones give you memories, the best ones, joy."
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"The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion."
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"Allowing attachments to people/things create a compulsive addiction in us to be controlling. This 'control (fueled by fear of loss) fools us into a false sense of security and love. At first glance, it is common to confuse the idea of Conscious Detachment with non-feeling or being cold, however learning this skill is a giant leap towards enlightenment. When you consciously detach from an object or a loved one, you empower them to exist at their potential. From this perspective, just being in their presence fosters feelings of love and admiration that far exceed any relationship that is limited with expectations, confinement and control."
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"It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn."
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"He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him."
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"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
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"Those who cheat on their partners who are loyal to them; don't deserve them. It is a trashy attitude to disrespect a person who is loyal in a relationship, by cheating on him or her."
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"What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?"
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"Lucien, women are wondrous, mysterious, and magical creatures, who should be treated not only with respect but with reverence, perhaps even awe. Now go sweep the steps."
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"Successful relationships are those relationships were conflicts are successfully resolved and in fact peoples intimacy, closeness, and love are enhanced through the resolution of conflicts. I have always become closer to my wife and to my friends when we have conflicts and work through them successfully because conflicts will always arise. They are an opportunity for intimacy, self-knowledge, and a greater connection."
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"I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world."
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"I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames of passion burn brightest when the wick of intimacy is first ignited by the disposable butane lighter of physical attraction, but sooner or later the heat of familiarity causes the wax of boredom to drip all over the vanilla frosting of novelty and the shredded coconut of romance.' I could not have phrased it better myself."
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"Loyalty looks simple... but it ain't."
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"Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
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"Strangers don't harm you ,But the people who says they care about you."
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