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Relationship Quotes
"When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference."
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"The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."
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"Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard."
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"Two married partners do not just live with each other, they live in each other, neurologically speaking."
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"Through the twist and turns of life, I find myself so grateful for my friends. Even though sometimes the days can seem so dark, and my heart can feel so hurt, I am never alone; my friends are beside me."
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"Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it."
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"Love" is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own...Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
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"But you never said anything! Not one frigging word, Lara Jean!Automatically I say, 'Don't say 'frig.'S'Not one frigging word, Kitty repeats with a shake of her head.Peter cracks up, and I give him a dirty look. 'It all happened really fast, he offers. 'There was barely time to tell anybody-'Was I talking to you? Kitty snaps. 'No, I don't think so. I was talking to my sister.Peter's eyes widen, and I can see him trying to keep a straight face."
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"The way I see it, he's all we have left ofher."
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"The friend that always finds time to spend with you without consulting his or her calendar is a true friend."
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"She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me."
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"A hedge between keeps friendships green."
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"God takes great joy in the passionate romantic love between a husband and wife."
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"A man once said of women, "Women are like roads, the more curves, the more fun, exciting and dangerous they are." While the evolved man smiles with class and confidence and says, women with more curves, twists and turns in her mind are the most beautiful, exciting, dangerous creatures alive. And the evolved woman, well, she will accept no less than the evolved man; a man with honor, dignity and depth."
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"Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or they almost always have to remind you to miss them)."
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"Any marriage can last forever, as long as both partners remain committed to their vows."
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"There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together."
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"Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable."
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"I wasn't even sure I wanted a man in my life again; by that time I'd exhausted the notion that the answer to a man is another man, and I was out of breath."
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"People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of it.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you."
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"Hey, if you'd wanted to avoid 'this,' you shouldn't have lured me last night. Now it's too late. You might as well avoid the long, drawn-out pain and get it over with quickly. Sort of like taking off a Band-Aid. Or cutting off a limb.""Wow, who says there's no romance left in the world?"
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"Wharick, on the other hand, remained there with his eyebrows raised slightly as he waited for her to complain about his behavior. 'You have no right, Wharick,' she said sternly. And there it is, he thought feeling more than pleased that he knew her better than she thought."
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"It's hard to say which I like more, the perfectly happy days or the hours right after we've ended a good fight."
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"How many times, in those first weeks, did he enter the room and stand by the door, unable to speak? How many times did she ask, "Do you need anything?"And he would say, "No."And she would say "Are you sure?"And he would say, "Yes," but think, Ask again.And she would say, "I know," but think, Come to me.And he would say , "Ask again."And she would say, "Come to me."And saying nothing, he would.There they would be, side by side, her hand on his thigh, his head resting on her chest. If they had been teenagers, it would have looked like the beginning of love, but they'd been married for twenty years, and it was the exhumation of love."
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"Touched by an act of kindness, be kind to others."
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"When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even thoseyou love."
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"We're not on the same page right now, but that's okay. Were still in the same story, and there's still so much more to be written. I won't put down my pen if you won't."
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"Love is total surrender, total acceptance and total commitment."
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"Our hearts, the war.Her body, the battlefield."
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"I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympathy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing."
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"A relationship that violates values is simply headed for crisis."
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"Even heaven would become hell if you were alone in it, or away from a loved one. And even if you were with your loved one, but in hell, eventually you would cry to have you and your loved one together in heaven. So to create your own heaven on earth, make sure you and your loved one are in a place you both love, because what could be heaven for one, could be hell for the other."
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"She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust."
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"Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people."
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"It will be impossible to catch all the rats, my love, he says. His hand brushes against mine. "Sooner or later, one will squeeze through the cracks. You need to be more careful."
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"You carry stories under your bright sad eyes, bag loads and I wish to god I could help you unload."
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"If your soul mate comes with too much baggage, help her unpack it."
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"Every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world-that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage."
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"A friend is as it were a second self."
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"We don't fall in love with people because they're good people. We fall in love with people whose darkness we recognise. You can fall in love with a person for all of the right reasons, but that kind of love can still fall apart. But when you fall in love with a person because your monsters have found a home in them-- that's the kind of love that owns your skin and bones. Love, I am convinced, is found in the darkness. It is the candle in the night."
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"Not everybody is looking for a boyfriend with a sports car."
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"You just seem so sad, I said, dialing voice mail. "Like someone stole your favorite nine millimeter."I'm not sad. He started down the hall, then turned back. "Least not when I look at you.."
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"As soon as you see the need to change your partner to save the relationship, it is then time to end it."
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"It is always good to have friends. Friends may be considered as part of the family because you have created and unbreakable bond. But, sometimes we outgrow certain people. We no longer have the same interests or outlook on life. That is when you realize that the friendship has to be maintained from a distance. Therefore, you create a new avenue in your life by removing toxic people who defeat your purpose."
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"I shake my head. "I know, I reply. "You are searching for her too.We stand for a moment, staring out at the stars mirrored in the calm seas. I know why Magiano doesn't look at me. I remind him too much of her."I'm sorry, I whisper, after a long pause."Don't be. A small, sad smile touches his lips. "She chose it."
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"We think we like or love some people until we see them regularly."
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"I loved him to death. Then I came to realization with how arrogant he was and instead of falling out of love, I fell harder. Every passing day I fell a little harder, a little faster, and a little sadder. I became anxious, obsessive, hurt, and sad. But one morning I awoke to realize I fell out of it. I loved him. I still do. But I was in love with him until the death of the relationship. Now I just love him. From afar. From the knowledge. From the happiness an individual gave me."
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"The most possessive part of Conall didn't want another male to even look at Rhea."
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"One of the most important things a man must bear in mind is this very thing - that he owes his fellow a transforming encounter."
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"Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person."
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