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Relationship Quotes
"That's how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide."
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"I think, that you can meet someone one day, who possesses the eyes you never had but always needed; the vision to see backwards and forwards and all around, the other wing that you need to complete your flight. And I think it can just happen, suddenly, without explanation! And then I think, it would be good to keep that person, you'll always have those eyes, and always have two wings."
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"If I were married, I would be unmarried."
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"Fannie Mae had aroused his anger, then reduced his anger to verbal breast-beating, and finally to silent hurt. Still, the love remained. Why?"
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"Are you willing to nourish your heart with love, then your selfishness will starve to death."
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"I don't know much about love, but I can assure you that is not the love what we are doing."
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"Relationships can be compared to the shopping process. You shop for clothes, food, shoes, etc. You aim at getting yourself the very best things you need and carefully select the items. We can apply this same concept when we take the time to know and understand those we invite into our space. We may not know everything about them upfront but just as we try on clothes to see if they fit, so also should we evaluate those we surround ourselves with and set boundaries where applicable."
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"Listening, it occurred to Randall that the love people feel for animals is the purest form of love. Loving an animal, a horse, cat, or dog, was always a romantic tragedy. It meant loving something that would die before you. Like that movie with Ali McGraw. There was no future, just the affection of the present moment. You didn't expect a big payoff, someday."
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"Your friends and enemies are defined the moment you come to this world."
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"Stop surrounding yourself with people who engage in acts to break you and bring you down. Isn't it obvious that they are desperately seeking for some people to join them at the bottom?"
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"The word friend is a label anyone can try on. You decide who is best suited to wear it. Choose wisely. The most dangerous among us come dressed as angels and we learn too late they are the devil in disguise."
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"Amazing relationships aren't about making one perfect choice in your choice of partner. They're about the infinite amount of choices you make in each conflict, each conversation, and each moment to open yourself and to stay open, even when it's hard."
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"The stiller you are the calmer life is."
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"Giving someone gifts cannot equate to spending quality time with them. Never replace time with things. Time is precious and once lost cannot be regained. Make every moment count...you never know when your time will be up."
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"I start to follow her, and Alex grabs my hand."I'll find you," he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. "I won't let you go again."I don't trust myself to speak. Instead I nod, hoping that he understands me. He squeezes my hand."Go," he says."
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"We fell into silence, both of us keeping our own secrets of what we'd suffered in the other's absence. I wondered if we were trying to protect each other or simply didn't want to admit to our own fears and weaknesses."
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"Acquaintances are numerous. Friends are few. Enemies many."
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"Only those with whom you have bound karmic accounts, in the past life, will be able to live with you together."
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"If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you."
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"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."
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"When something serious happens in your life, something bad comes out of it but also something good. You get to see who is real. Who your true friends are, and who truly loves you."
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"But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat."
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"Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce."
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"Men don't think, high and low-alike, they take what a woman does for them for granted."
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"When I feel lonely you are here beside me with your loving and caring touch."
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"Rowl felt sure that Bridget's fragile feelings would be crushed if he denied her the pleasure of sharing her meat with him."
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"There is a huge college about how men and women interact with each other after marriage. But people get married without learning."
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"Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't."
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"For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and-by some sad, strange irony-it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy."
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"We had more fun waiting in line together at the Department of Motor Vehicles than most couples have on their honeymoons. We gave each other same nickname, so there would be no separation between us. We made goals, vows, promises and dinner together. He read books to me..."
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"With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting."
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"But darling if he loved you, would he want to see you cry?"
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"I would never let anyone else borrow my heart if I know there's a chance in hell you might want it back."
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"People just don't get it, we don't need someone to control our life, we need someone to share it, relationships are falling apart cause they keep digging in our past , they don't wanna let it Rest In Peace."
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"Let's go to bed. Those four words differentiate a marriage from every other kind of relationship. We aren't going to find a way to agree, but let's go to bed. Not because we want to, but because we have to. We hate each other right now, but let's go to bed. It's the only one we have. Let's go to our sides, but the sides of the same bed. Let's retreat into ourselves, but together. How many conversations had ended with those four words? How many fights?"
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"Lead your life with love and friendship, self-love as your own friend."
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"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
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"Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over."
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"Love is the perfect safety, or the perfect weapon."
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"Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light."
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"I knew I sounded hysterical, and Adrian's calmness only drove that home. "I think I have an idea, he said. "An idea that'll get us some hardcore protection but I don't know how you'll feel about it."I'm open to anything, I assured him.He hesitated a moment and gave a decisive nod. Then, to my complete and utter astonishment, he got down on his knees before me and clasped my hands in his. "Sydney Katherine Sage, he said, his green eyes full of love and earnestness. "Would you do a brooding, deadbeat Moroi the honor of being his wife?"
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"Don't be afraid of marrying the right person even if they come from the wrong background."
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"In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's."
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"Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?"
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"He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with."
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"Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?"
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"Sacrifice begins with sharing."
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"Well enough, I reply. "Remember, you're drunk. And happy. You're supposed to be lusting over your escort. Try smiling a little more. like I'm lusting? This is me, lusting. His lashes flutter at me. better."
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"I'm not an advocate of promiscuity; but then I'm also not an advocate of being virginal. It's not like I put virginity or celibacy on a pedestal, and as long as I don't get your promiscuity rubbed into my face- I don't care about it! What I do care about is the ability to recognize the sanctity of a union of two souls- you just can't say your soul isn't being united with others' when you have sex with them. So I think you'd better own up to what you're doing- no matter how frequently or infrequently or with how many different people you do it. I mean, make good choices! You are, after all, entwining your soul with another's."
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