Quotes About Relationships

A veces las relaciones que se cimentan en el daño son más persistentes que las que se basan en el amor.

La #Intimidad: no tener muy claro donde acabas tú y empieza el otro.

El desamor es tópico, ridículo, monumentalmente exagerado. Pero duele

Ya se sabe que sufrir de mal de amores es como marearse en un barco: a la gente tu estado le parece divertido, pero tú te sientes morir.

See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

ou know chicks before dicks. Never choose a guy over a friend. It's one of the most important rules of feminism.

For most teenage girls, guys are everything. Boys validate their existence; they define who they are and where they stand in the world. You can talk to boys differently than your girlfriends. Until they screw you over, they can be really fun and comforting.

The stakes are so high. Our boys deserve meaningful relationships, the freedom to pursue what interests and challenges them, a feeling of belonging and social connection to others, and a sense that they're contributing to something larger than themselves.

The fact is, one shouldn't go to parties when one is in love. It makes one act aloof and superior and everyone distrusts you.

June added, "You know, I realized after that one amazing evening I could have walked away from the marriage, and Mark and I would have stayed the best of friends. I could have said, 'I'd rather not,' without feeling resigned or embattled. I finally had a choice.

I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big successes. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of human pride. —WILLIAM JAMES

WHEN ONE PERSON peels away layers of opinion, entitlement, pride, and inflated self-description, others instantly feel the connection.

And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.

You can never get enough of the ones you love, thought Thomas

And Patrice thought another thing her mother said was definitely true—you never really knew a man until you told him you didn't love him. That's when his true ugliness, submerged to charm you, might surface. After all, it had happened with Bucky.

Why would she waste her time figuring out men when she was a person who had slept with a bear?

And Patrice thought another thing her mother said was definitely true—you never really knew a man until you told him you didn't love him.

In English there was a word for every object. In Ojibwe there was a word for every action. English had more shades of personal emotion, but Ojibwe had more shades of family relationships.

The Larks are the sort of people who trot out their relationships with "good Indians," whom they secretly despise and openly patronize, in order to prove their general love for Indians, whom they are engaged in cheating.

How could Indians hold themselves apart, when the vanquishers sometimes held their arms out, to crush them to their hearts, with something like love?

Bernadette thought she could trust young Nector Kashpaw because he'd been exposed to the withering light of the government school.

Louise Erdrich

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones. Our pulse is set to theirs, and as always on a weekend afternoon we were waiting for my mother to start us ticking away on the evening. And