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Quotes About Relationships

Forget about love. You will receive that many times, but none of it is lasting.
~ Amy Tan
She didn't understand people who thrived on argument and being right all the time. Her mother was that way, and what did that get her? Nothing but unhappiness, dissatisfaction, and anger.
~ Amy Tan
You want to know what the real problem is? You use Elza as a scapegoat for all your insecurities. You've made her a bigger deal in your life than she ever was in mine. You never even knew her, but you project every doubt about yourself onto her... [Said Simon to Olivia]
~ Amy Tan
Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls. Dory
~ Amy Tan
Si el amor persiste pese al dolor de las diferencias, hay que preservarlo como una joya rara
~ Amy Tan
I want us to love each other so deeply we ache with the fullness of it.
~ Amy Tan
Would it last until they were senile? Hard to say. They had been through trial by fire, and it would either forge them like iron or break them apart like untempered glass. But there was this: They both desired the same thing. They wanted to be loved for who they were. They just had to discover who they were beneath the habits of foray and retreat.
~ Amy Tan
I watch them continue to argue, although perhaps it is not arguing. They are remembering together, dreaming together.
~ Amy Tan
Believe me, daughter, there is nothing worse than having your own family member out for revenge.
~ Amy Tan
I could finally see what was there: an old woman, a wok for her armor, a knitting needle for her sword, getting a little crabby as she waited patiently for her daughter to invite her in.
~ Amy Tan
From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.
~ Amy Tan
And I'd let him- not because I weakened and wanted sex, but because it would have been spiteful, beyond redemption, not to allow us this hope.
~ Amy Tan
Absolutely. I remember." "Funny, I thought you did." "Ah, you assumed!" He laughed. "Your mother isn't the only one with memory problems. Well, if I said it, then I was wrong, because I do think it's important to have certain assumptions—for one thing, that the person who's with you is there for the long haul, that he'll take care of you and what comes with you, the whole package, mother and
~ Amy Tan
never make the cost of saving face so high that a man must go elsewhere to show how generous he is.
~ Amy Tan
Ruth believed Wendy made her life more sparkly, but today was not a good time for sparkles.
~ Amy Tan
El amor no se puede forzar
~ Ana Frank
El ser humano puede sentirse solo a pesar del amor de muchos, porque para nadie es realmente el más querido.
~ Ana Frank
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
~ Anais Nin
I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
~ Anais Nin
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.
~ Anais Nin
In my childhood diary I wrote: "I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.
~ Anais Nin
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
~ Anais Nin
He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
~ Anais Nin
A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.
~ Anais Nin