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Relationship Quotes


"If I blink she'll disappear," he told her. She looked at him and said,"Maybe that is the best thing for you."


"When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in."


"Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person."



"And things were back to normal except we were just friends."


"He crouched at the car window and looked in. 'What a lovely family you have. What a charming family. They're all lovely. Except for that one.' His finger jabbed the glass. 'That one's a bit ugly."


"But marriage is forever.'Oh, not really,' he assured her. 'Only until one of us dies.'Her eyes widened. 'I do not want you to die,' she said.'Perhaps you will go first,' he said, 'though I rather think I hope not. I would probably have grown accustomed to you by then and would miss you."



"The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband."


"Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing."


"Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds."


"A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed."


"There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him...Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive?"



"The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault."


"The only depth where I can breathe, and don't need to fight for air, is in your love."


"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."


"And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt at cheering a mind from which darkness, as if an inherent positive quality, poured forth upon all objects of the moral and physical universe in one unceasing radiation of gloom."


"A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats."


"It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect."


"Relationships do not preclude issues of morality."


"A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning."


"She Was So Beautiful, an Awesome Heart of Gold, She was Down To Earth, caring. Loving Person but she changed in unpredictable way."


"I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships."


"Short of a death in the family, a divorce is perhaps the most life-altering experience in human relationships."


"The more we get attached to any relationship, the more we lose the grip on our emotional freedom."


"Man has his will - but woman has her way."


"Who knows you more...your friend or your enemy? It's your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure."


"I want you to know that, despite what you might read at times in the newspapers or see on the television news, we have actually been getting a lot of things done the last several months, the U.S.-Canada relationship."


"It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day."


"Since marriage is for two people, it is difficult to remain in it when one person steps out of it."


"Paul, Paul, this is the claim you never made, the fervor you never showed. You were so cool and light, so elusive, and I never felt you encircling me and claiming possession. Rango is saying all the words I wanted to hear you say. You never came close to me, even while taking me. You took me as men take foreign women in distant countries whose language they cannot speak. You took me in silence and strangeness."


"I'm not capable of being casual with you, Lily."



"Ain't nothing going to eat you while Bubba's around." Caleb laughed. "They might toy with him for a bit but he won't let any past." Caleb to Nick."Is something wrong?" Nick to Bubba"Nah... I just..." Bubba nervous."Please, God, Bubba, tell me you're not about to ask me out, are you?" Nick to Bubba.Bubba made a rude sound at him. "Hell, nah. I'd date Mark first, provided he took a bath so I wouldn't have to fumigate my truck or store.""But," Bubba continued, "now that you mention it... that is what I wanted to ask you about.""Dating Mark? Really?" Nick to Bubba.'Cause the kid with a brand-new license was such an expert on going out with others."


"Jaime gave her [Brienne] a hard smile. "See, wench? We know each other too well."


"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."


"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."


"I think the reason why people's relationships fail, really, is due to the fact that people are always putting their best feet forward all the time and not letting others actually "meet" them. The "meeting" part tends to happen later on and it shocks and disappoints people who have already bought into the best that was put forward. Why not meet people first as who you really are, then help one another, build up one another, encourage and sculpt each other... grow and become, together! Why can't people do that? Your best foot needs to be kept right beside you, right beside the other one."


"Despite his soft speech, he stared at her as he'd like to eat her whole. Damn her traitorous body if that thought wasn't such a bad one. This could not be happening. She was on the run from a maniac and her hormones were going haywire. Clearly, she had issues."


"I'm not the marrying kind -"St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention."


"Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others."


"We are often so convinced that we are so hurt and in pain, so much so that we opt not to forgive. Yet, as a consequence, that is what will make you weak!"


"Emotional predictive profiling may help identify contingent fissures in the stature of endangered relationships. Still and all, it might be wise to let the genie out of problematic bottles in the first place, in advance of scouting the causes of surreptitious subliminal convulsions. ['Beware of the neighbor']"


"All he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand."



"Dear Friend, I'm sorry I haven't written to you in a couple of weeks, but I have been trying to 'participate' like Bill said."


"Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee."


"In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing."


"Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships."


"Alexandra had been married for thirty-three years; if it had made any impression on her one way or another, she never showed it."


"Why d'you make me suffer?''Because I love you.Now it was his turn to get angry. 'No, no, you don't love me! People in love want happiness, not pain!'People in love want only love, even at the cost of pain.'Then you're making people suffer on purpose.'Yes, to see if you love me.The Baron's philosophy would not go any further. 'Pain is a negative state of the soul. 'Love is all. 'Pain should always be fought against.'Love refuses nothing.'Some things I'll never admit.'Oh yes, you do, now, for you love me and you suffer."


"I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents."


"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others."
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