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Relationship Quotes
"I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values."
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"I miss talking to her and talking to her used to make me feel alive."
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"Stop giving love to those who don't return it."
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"I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis."
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"We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too."
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"Trust is a foundation built one brick at a time."
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"Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor."
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"As dogs return to their vomit, some men return to their wives."
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"If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether."
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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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"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
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"There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall."
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"Soul mates recognise one another's vibration. They instantly fuse to the life force that surrounds their core of being."
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"But I never just quite liked that ryhme.''Why not, child?''Because it seems to say one's as good as another, or two new ones are better than one that's lost. . . . Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one any more. Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight."
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"All right," Mom said. She gave Samuel a stern look,"Now I don't know what's going on between you and my daughter and Adam Hauptman-""Neither do we," I mutteredSamuel grinned "We have it pretty well worked out as far as the sex goes. Adam gets it-someday-and I don't. But the rest is still up for negotiation."
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"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
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"Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood."
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"Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time."
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"You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship."
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"Since marriage is for two people, it is difficult to remain in it when one person steps out of it."
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"I'm really hoping he's being genuine because I can already tell he isn't the kind of guy a girl gets a simple crush on. He's the kind of guy you fall hard for, and the thought of that terrifies me. I don't really want to fall hard for anyone at all, especially someone who's only making an effort because he thinks I'm easy. I also don't want to fall for someone who has already branded himself hopeless. But I'm curious. So curious."
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"How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them."
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"Does he treat you with respect at all times? That's the first question. The second question is, if he is the exact same person twenty years from now that he is today, would you still want to marry him? And finally, does he inspire to be a better person? You find someone you can answer yes to all three, then you've found a good man."
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"It's not what's happened or what's about to happen, what's important is the sense of emotional uncertainty between the characters and the delicacy of the mutual trust being established."
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"People change spouses more often than they clean out closets. And every time they say, 'This is the one. This is the person I'm going to spend eternity with.' Then forty or fifty years go by and you're just sick of each other, utterly sick, and it's on to the next 'true love.' My question is what good is eternity if you are eternally falling in and out of love?"
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"Love cares about you. Leadership carries you."
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"The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back."
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"It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable."
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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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"Are you trying to tell me you were a virgin before me?" she asked teasingly... He snorted at the question. "I just wanted to give you fair warning that I'm going to fuck up. Probably a lot." She shrugged, seemingly unfazed. "Me too. That's what relationships are about. We'll argue, then have incredible make-up sex. And as long as you always concede that I'm right after an argument, we'll be fine."
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"He was the safe place I would go when the world became shaky, he would either guide me through the dark or awaken my sense to appreciate my light."
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"How do you do it?""Do what?""All of it. You know. Go to class and practice. Make it through the day. Act like ... like none if it mattered."Jason swore beneath his breath and pulled the car over. Then he reached across the seat and brushed his thumb over her cheek; until then, she hadn't been aware she was crying. "Trix," he sighed, "it mattered."
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"A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp."
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"Most people are willing to promise you a lot. A few are those who can promise you a little, just as much as they can."
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"France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America.""
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"As long as they were together, they could face anything. For the first time in a long time, she didn't feel alone-and she knew he didn't either."
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"There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it."
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"As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone."
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"Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability."
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"If your partner isn't bringing out the best in you, you're in the wrong relationship."
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"I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents."
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"Never put off repairing a relationship you value. If sorry needs to be said say it now. Tomorrow isn't guaranteed to any of us."
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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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"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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"If you are having private thoughts and ask an intimate friend to listen to them in privacy or on a date will that be considered too intimi-dating? And if the thoughts are proved to be untrue, but your friend still insists on believing in them anyway, would that be considered a cons-piracy?"
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"You're staring," Lana said."Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys."
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"True friends chop the onions and cry together."
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"It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive."
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"He shook his head, staring at her like a condemned man who beheld the face of his executioner. "Aline," he whispered, "Do you know what hell is?""Yes." Her eyes overflowed. "Trying to exist with your heart living somewhere outside your body.""No. It's knowing that you have so little faith in my love, you would have condemned me to a lifetime of agony." His face contorted suddenly. "To something worse than death."
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