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Relationship Quotes
"Fantasies can be great, but we shouldn't make the wedding a fantasy, because the wedding is the gateway to married life. It shouldn't be a moment of illusion; it should be a moment of preparation."
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"When it comes to matters of the heart and soul, I'm not a falling kind of girl. I'm more of a slamming, crashing, erupting..."
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"If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count."
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"He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do."
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"Your friends are a reflection of you."
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"Blake smiled radiantly. EoMay I call you Vasilisa?EoEoYou can call me Lissa.EoEoYou can also,Eo added Christian, Eolet go of her hand now."
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"It grieved him plaguily, he said, to see the nuptial couch defrauded of its dearest pledges: and to reflect upon so many agreeable females with rich jointures, a prey for the vilest bonzes, who hide their flambeau under a bushel in an uncongenial cloister or lose their womanly bloom in the embraces of some unaccountable muskin when they might multiply the inlets of happiness, sacrificing the inestimable jewel of their sex when a hundred pretty fellows were at hand to caress, this, he assured them, made his heart weep."
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"He'd known, since the moment he figured out who she was, that while Celaena would always pick him, Aelin would not."
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"But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."
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"She was sewing together the little proofs of his devotion out of which to make a garment for her tattered love and faith. He cut into the faith with negligent scissors, and she mended and sewed and rewove and patched. He wasted, and threw away, and could not evaluate or preserve, or contain, or keep his treasures. Like his ever torn pockets, everything slipped through and was lost, as he lost gifts, mementos--all the objects from the past. She sewed his pockets that he might keep some of their days together, hold together the key to the house, to their room, to their bed. She sewed the sleeve so he could reach out his arm and hold her, when loneliness dissolved her. She sewed the lining so that the warmth would not seep out of their days together, the soft inner skin of their relationship."
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"She didn't want to talk with Levi. And wasn't that the problem. She wanted to do things that didn't involve any talking. Well, maybe it did if you counted dirty talk."
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"I told her about the time that I got so tired of you stealing the sheets that in my sleep-weary logic I decided that the thing to do was to tie them around my legs, knot and all, and how, when you attempted to steal them that night, you ended up yanking me into you, and I was so startled that I sprang up, tripped, and was nearly concussed."
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"If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don't change because of it. It's just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it."
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"You can talk about everything, your deepest struggles and your most terrific happiness, with a #supersoulfriend. Send your #SSF a hug today!"
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"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?"
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"The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault."
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"You take a very handsome guy, or a guy that thinks he's a real hot-shot, and they're always asking you to do them a big favor. Just because they're crazy about themself, they think you're crazy about them, too, and that you're just dying to do them a favor. It's sort of funny, in a way."
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"Kill the women? No, nobody ever saw anything in the books like that. You fetch them to the cave, and you're always as polite as pie to them; and by-and-by they fall in love with you and never want to go home any more."
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"Choose your friends carefully. They are a reflection of you."
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"She nodded and somehow found her voice. You're going too slow," she whispered.A wicked smile spread across his face that she felt all the way to her toes. It softened his normally harsh expression, making him look years younger. That look should be illegal."
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"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats."
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"Anna Petrovna: Do you know what, Kolya? Try and sing, laugh, get angry, as you once did... You stay in, we'll laugh and drink fruit liqueur and we'll drive away your depression in a flash. I'll sing if you like. Or else let's go and sit in the dark in your study as we used to, and you'll tell me about your depression... You have such suffering eyes. I'll look into them and cry, and we'll both feel better."
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"You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus."
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"Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful."
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"I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other."
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"Love, endure, persist... Everything will return to you, innocent fool!"
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"When people don't respect one another seldom is there honesty."
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"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question."
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"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered."
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"My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers."
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"A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else."
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"I love you for a great many reasons and despite a great many others."
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"Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth."
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"If our relationships are not all about sex, then we must not make homosexuality a matter of concern."
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"Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about."
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"With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office."
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"I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them."
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"A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience."
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"The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships."
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"In the sphere of human relations, faith is an indispensable quality of any significant friendship or love. "Having faith" in another person means to be certain of the reliability and unchangeability of his fundamental attitudes, of the core of his personality, of his love. By this I do not mean that a person may not change his opinions, but that his basic motivations remain the same; that, for instance, his respect for life and human dignity is part of himself, not subject to change."
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"Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke."
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"You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes."
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"Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget."
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"But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love."
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"It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important."
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"I am yours.Don't give myself back to me."
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"A genuine love gives it all, it protects and no strings attached. Love someone today."
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"He must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing.I couldn't look at him. 'What makes you say that?' Gavril sighed. 'I've known Maxon since he was a child. He's never stood up to his father like that."
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