Quotes About Relationships

I told him that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.

I'm sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.

Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever.

She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.

They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.

When you open yourself to somebody, when you feel these thing that you feel, well, what do you do? You can try to ignore it, maybe you can try to forget about it, but you can't undo it and you can't give it back.

I know you are always finding ways to love me in spite of how horrible I am, I hope I haven't run out of chances.

She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.

But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think. I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and lt me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

There are some people who fall in love over and over.

I feel like I should love them right away. But how do you do that? You can't make yourself love someone, can you?

Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good about yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could flip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct ad had nothing at all to give.

Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.

There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.

Not everyone got a close family. Not everyone needed one.

She was bad at love. She loved too hard.

Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.

He could take happiness from her, but could he give any?

You broke up with him, a combination Effie-Carmen voice in her head reminded her. But that didn't mean you were allowed to stop loving me, she felt like saying to him.

She wasn't comfortable with the term boyfriend even when she did have one, and she hated everybody knowing her private business.

If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.

They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.

Fine, blood was thicker than water. But friendship, it struck Tibby, was thicker than both.