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Relationship Quotes
"His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room."
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"Here's the thing- I love you and I love her, but I swear to God I'll kick your ass if you hurt her."
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"We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours."
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"Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it's a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don't, you're always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes."
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"George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you?"
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"Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it."
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"Her skin smells of vintage books and pale moonlight, exotic things, forbidden loves and rainy nights."
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"I'm not comfortable in this stadium, I explained, trying to look calm."I know. And you hate Fang looking at those girls. But we're still havingfun, and Fang still loves you, and you'll still save the world. Okay?"
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"Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret."
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"I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give."
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"Only Some people feel what is love Others Just practice sex."
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"Love cares about you. Leadership carries you."
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"Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end - it is the journey."
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"One only understands the things that one tames, said the fox. "Men haveno more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at theshops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and somen have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me. . ."
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"Sometimes divorce is the best thing that can happen to marriage."
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"Choose your friends carefully. They are a reflection of you."
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"The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most."
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"One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs."
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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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"The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them."
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"[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken.The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other."
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"Love and being in love are not the same thing. The woman takes the man she loves into her body and absorbs his oils and essence. A part of him enters her and becomes a part of her."
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"When someone respects you, s/he confronts you in private before taking you in public and/or stabbing in the back and backbiting you..."
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"You can only give and display what you have if you are frustrated with others you are quite a frustrating person and if you are loving others, you are a lovely person!"
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"Everyone thinks his family is strange," Del said, scratching Scootie behind the ears, "but it's just that... because we're closer to the people we love, we tend to see them through a magnifying glass, through a thicker lens of emotion, and we exaggerate their eccentricities."
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"When a man meets the right woman, he meets a new strength!"
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"We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex."
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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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"Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture."
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"You make a good point,' Fletcher conceded. 'See, there's a reason why you're the girl and I'm the boy. You think about things while I...''Don't?''Exactly,' he said happily."
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"I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those."
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"I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them."
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"Of course I'll hurt you. Of course you'll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence."
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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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"Relationships based on obligation lack dignity."
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"Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets."
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"Tibby, on the other hand, had spent hundreds and hundreds of hours with Brian striving for the comfort of not knowing."
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"And there, my dear Fio, you make one of Womankind's greatest mistakes: falling in love with a man's potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it."
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"A Woman Who loves you and really needs you in her life will always keep her eyes on you and always will make sure to keep you close to her not to ever let go. If she ever let you go. She never loved you. She was just killing her time."
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"There's nothing lonelier than empty relationships. At least when you're alone you can be yourself, but when you're in empty relationships you can't even be yourself.You can be real alone, or you can be a ghost with false friends.Pulse proximity is not intimacy, and it's worse than no friends at all."
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"He couldn't say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he'd learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she'd knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. "It's fixed. As long as you don't mind more than a few scars."
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"It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things."
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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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"The world gels better every day - then worse again in the evening."
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"I like the chase, scavenging and how we unravel. Standing naked with all my pores at the door. Waiting for a response, a love, someone to call my home. Where my emotions graze the air and I'm lying half past gone."
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"I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released, you refused to be found and I needed you more than anything in my life. Not to mend my broken bones, Arjuro. I needed my brother to mend my broken spirit."
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"True friends are placed together for the purpose of accomplishing great achievements that help others."
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