Quotes About Relationships

It is very hard to prevail where you are not, in the deepest and most intimate and forgiving of ways, loved. It is very hard to prevail in any case but without this love, it is close to impossible.

She wanted a relationship that seemed already mature, if not old and settled, at the start. Newness and rawness did not appeal to her.

Love is what can't be helped. When it waxes, and when it wanes.

Traição é uma coisa dolorosa. Traição é a ferida mais profunda. Traição é o que resta do amor depois que o amor acaba.

misinterpreting her silence for a broken heart, her cynicism about men for depression, ir despondency [...]

Como isso acontece, você gosta tanto de alguém — ama alguém, talvez — e depois, não muito tempo depois, o que sente é ódio? Um ódio horrível e funesto? Um ódio de vontade de matar? Por quê?

It was remarkable to Julia—(it did not hurt or offend her, but only amused her)—how Ryan's family managed to take photographs or videos of themselves that excluded her.

Tu castigo si eres mujer. Que no te amen lo suficiente.

Because nothing between human beings isn't uncomplicated and there's no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them.

A career is not a life. Only a family is a life.

Mom's new husband was eleven years older than Mom. He had been Mom's boss at the Buick dealership where she'd worked until they were married, and you could see that he was still Mom's boss—the way he spoke to her, not exactly giving orders, never forgetting to say Please but in a tone of voice that meant there was no negotiating. Of

This web of intricate connections

When a man shares with a woman his marital/domestic problems, the kind of problems that seem never to be solved but only to morph into yet more complicated problems, like hair snarls proliferating, sympathy flows in one direction only. By instinct a woman knows it's naive to expect the flow to reverse.

In marriage as in tennis, one player is inevitably superior to the other.

Marriage, family. What else is there? You had to grow up. You had to accept it.

If marriage is a masquerade, there is the very real danger that masks may slip. The

Politics, the negotiating of power. Eros, the negotiating of power.

And her father's personal odor, of which she would no more speak than she would have uttered an obscenity in his presence.

unyielding—Oh Norma Jeane leads a crazy life, you see—she has a former husband very jealous of her—he is her "ex" but he is

Some of the girls with steady boyfriends even hinted at or informed their boyfriends they were having their periods. Marianne couldn't imagine such openness, such intimacy. She'd never been that close to any boy, had had countless friends who were boys, yet few boyfriends with all that implied of specialness, possessiveness. Sharing secrets. No, not even her brothers, not even Patrick she adored.

if a man hurts you, and you show that hurt, and your eyes lock with his, he will never forgive you. For always you will be the girl he has hurt, which means you are the girl he can always hurt again. Mr.

Marianne was not the type to speak of such things, she'd worry she was betraying the boy's confidence, but if the boy was pursuing her, so much more doggedly than other boys had pursued her. Marianne would be terribly distressed. Nothing worried her more than the possibility she'd hurt someone's feelings.

You never give such relationships a thought, To give a thought, to take a thought is a function of dissociation, distance. You can't exercise memory until you've removed yourself from memory's source.

Despite all of my moaning and groaning about the romantic disasters that continued to befall me, I knew if I were ever forced to choose I would take a good book over a good relationship any day of the week.