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Relationship Quotes


"Some marry because they are in love. Others marry to have sex ... without the guilt."


"Marriage and dating are man-made ideologies; if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, we'd all be born in pairs; as couples."


"When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters."


"Social Media isn't creating the problems in our relationships, it's only exposing the ones that already existed."


"Good lovers are not good fuckers, because they cannot bear hurting their beloved."


"The idea of forgiveness is a journey that requires patience. If the journey of forgiveness is well travelled, there is a chance that we are bound to change in a very helpful way."


"The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love."


"Marriages can endure any difficulty with unfailing love and dedication."


"Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he earns; and many a man would not be in a relationship with or married to his woman, if he earned twice as much as he earns."


"I'm not going to force you into anything you don't want. But I'm also not going to take a vow of chastity and pine away for you, or whatever the hell it is that men do in romance novels these days. I have needs. I'd rather satisfy them with you, but if you don't want me I suppose I'll just have to find someone else. Might take me a while, but I'll make do. I always have before."


"Life is the lover's responsibility."


"We all have thorns in our flesh. All of us. Love is when we stay and help someone pluck out their thorns one-by-one and they do the same for us. Love is also when we pluck the thorns out of our own flesh, one-by-one. But today, the world teaches us that we shouldn't even see those thorns, that we should only see the petals. As a result, we don't know how to love ourselves and we don't know how to love others. Stay with the darkness, and bring that darkness into the light. It's there, look at it."


"Will you ever stop needing to be right?Will I ever stop needing you to be?"


"Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune."


"Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new desire and greed, a shared higher thirst for an ideal above them. But who knows such love? who has experienced it? Its true name is friendship."


"You married into the family. You have to love me. It's a contractual obligation."


"The fact that neither of us made sense was the beauty of it."


"The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the reason why a man is often heartbroken, is because a woman can become overcome by the reality that she has made a man out of a boy, because it's just such an overwhelming process, a beautiful and powerful evolution. Therefore, a man needs to fall in love with a woman who knows that men don't happen every day, and when a man does happen, that's a gift! A gift not always given, and one that shouldn't be thrown away so easily."


"She imagined him leaning against the shuttle, entertaining thoughts of scolding her for dressing like a ragged commoner. Never mind that her present outfit was light years ahead in comfort.(Actually, he's wishing he had been less critical of you earlier. He feels bad that you won't acknowledge his presence, and he blames himself.)(Quit it, Ian. I'm not going to feel sorry for him.)She caught her protector's shrewd grin, highlighted by the fire's glow. (You already do, Queenie.)(This talent of yours is really annoying.)He leaned close to her ear and whispered, "That's not what you thought earlier when you wanted to get ahold of Efren. "One tiny rosebud in a handful of thorns, she retorted."


"The cord of two is better than one."


"Nonconformity in dating is all about being authentic and true to yourself."


"Why don't we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that's not an easy thing to do."


"He thought about the next time he would laugh with her and then the next. He found himself often thinking about the future, even before the present was over."



"Jake guessed Henry had been pulling shit like this on him so long that Eddie only noticed it when Henry pulled it on someone else " someone like the blonde ticket-seller."


"You may love, honor, and care for her, but someone else is doing what she needs."


"For a different woman, a different relationship, a different situation, gentleness might have been the proper, the only approach-but not for this woman, in these circumstances. The only thing that will cleanse Claire (and reassure her: look at what she says at the end of it. She feels safe again, having felt the power and violence in him) is violence. And-the most important point here-Jamie pays attention to what she wants, rather than proceeding with his own notion of how it should be, even though it's a sensible notion and the one most people would have."


"Who you spend your time with is who you are, or who you will soon become."


"When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you-even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you'd be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)"


"No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life."



"Let's establish a code for when you want to go all creeper on me. One knock means you'd like to come in. Two means you're just stopping by to spy on me while I sleep. His eyes travel from my face to my shirt (which happens to be his shirt) to my bare legs, lingering a breath too long before returning to my face. His gaze is warm. My legs are cold.Then he knocks once on the jamb. But it's the smile that gets him in."


"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."


"Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. "You did read a lot. And spent too much time just inside the kitchen window, where I couldn't see you very well.""And not enough time mostly naked in front of my bedroom window?" I teased. Sam turned bright red. "That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation."


"There is so much that is still silent between Jaja and me. Perhaps we will talk more with time, or perhaps we never will be able to say it all, to clothe things in words, things that have long been naked."


"We all love people in our life. way of expressing it may change but the intensity never fluctuates. there are comparisons and fights in any relation because of the same reason of their existence."


"The only path of escape he could conceive as yet for Lady Harman lay through the chivalry of some other man. That a woman could possibly rebel against one man without the sympathy and moral maintenance of another was still outside the range of Mr. Brumley's understanding. It is still outside the range of most men's understandings -- and of a great many women's."


"If a woman stands behind you, respect her; if she stands beside you, cherish her; if she stands with you, adore her."


"We don't really have a song or anything." I pondered that for a second. "I guess we've failed as a couple in that regard."She scoffed. "If that's our biggest failing, then I think we're doing okay."


"The only real reason that some relationships and marriages have not yet been ended is because in each case one of the partners has not yet found their ideal partner or someone they love or at least like."


"We are brothers and sisters. We are one sacred family."


"The greatest love stories are not written by the ink of the pen, but by the ink of the heart."


"I'm my beloved's and my beloved is mine."


"In any relationship, frequent usage of two words is very important. They can change the course of destiny. These words are ' Thank You, and Sorry."


"Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret."


"Did you hear me, Zach? I care about you. 'Okay, I said. 'It's okay with me that you care about me. But can we please not talk about it? Would that be okay with you? 'Yeah, that would be okay, he said."


"Also I could hear Amanda's voice: Why are you being so weak? Love's never a fair trade. So Jimmy's tired of you, so what, there's guys all over the place like germs, and you can pick them like flowers and toss them away when they're wilted. But you have to act like you're having a spectacular time and every day's a party."


"A confident and faithful woman that loves herself and knows what she is capable of creating will attract the right man that will want to be part of that plan. God won't bring her a man that she has to mold into what she wants him to be. A relationship is about two people helping one another grow, not just one."


"You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found."


"When dating, emotionally reveal yourself in increments that are congruent with your comfort level."
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