Quotes About Relationships

You think, Fuck it. The guy's a genius. He deserves her. What is a woman, after all? You are alive and in Paris.

I wanted to know what he thought about my loving a man whose bills were being paid by another woman.

How ashamed most of us would be, if we were reminded of some past behavior, some attitude that we maintained while under the delusion that we were in love—and were loved in return.

Her mother had responded in kind, and the result was "unpleasantness and misery rebounding all the time.

Margot used to like describing men as 'my unhappy love affair.' But hadn't that presumed the existence of a happy love affair that made the others unimportant? What is unhappy is the only kind Margo ever has?

No, you won't. And I won't be enough for you, Amanda. I don't want to be the center of your life. I want to be part of it. I want to be your husband, not your god. People can't always be there for you, no matter how much they want to be. And that includes me.

I don't want to fall in love with you,' she said, pushing away. 'why not?' 'because you'll just end up using it against me.

If you love me as you claim to, then you love her as well. She's part of me. Do you understand? She's part of my flesh and my life. When you say things against her, you say them against me. When you cut her, you cut me. Do you understand?

He was never angry when she made mistakes. He complimented and encouraged her. He shared his own mishaps with a sense of humor that made her less annoyed with her own incompetence. He gave her hope that she could learn, and pride when she did.

Love doesn't last. She didn't know how much showed her pale face. Meribah's face softened. Sometimes it does. If it's the right kind.

Lord, forgive me. You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy. Help me. Open my heart and mind so that I will love her as you have loved me.

Fagan hated what his father was, but he still loved him. I reckon that's the way God is. Loving us enough to send Jesus but hating the way we live. Hating the sin, not the sinner.

We all just use each other in one way or another. To feel good. To feel bad. To feel nothing at all. The lucky ones are real good at it.

Better to have trouble with man than trouble with God.

Sooner or later you'll learn there are people in the world who don't want to use you, Now, buck up your courage and go back in there and get to know a few.

People either weigh you down or give you wings.

Everyone to whom she drew close left her. Sooner or later they walked away.

Angel lay in the darkness after Meribah left and worked over what she had said. Mama had worked to keep Alex Stafford's love alive. She had tried everything to please him and keep his passion alive. Angel wondered now if it hadn't been those very efforts that served to drive him away. Mama had been so hungry for his love. Her entire life had revolved around Alex Stafford's coming to the small cottage. Her happiness depended solely on him. It had been an obsession.

Silence did not always mean indifference

We grieve for those we've lost, but it's the living that cause us the most pain....

She destroyed his dreams, and he made her wind chimes.

Falling in love meant you lost control of your emotions and your will and your life. It meant you lost yourself.

Right now love doesn't have an awful lot to do with feelings

A man's hearted could rub deeper than any gift could reach.