Quotes About Relationships

Watching them, I thought again of how we can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.

If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don't change because of it. It's just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.

Family isnt about blood relationships, its about the meaning behind them. I relize now that sharing chromosoms is not the only way to having a family, its about the friendship behind it.

Love is an excuse to put up with shit that you shouldn't

It was like reaching for someone's hand, then missing their fingers, or even their arm, and hitting their shoulder instead. But no matter. You hang on tight anyway.

My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.

My point is you're different here. Hollis I've only been here for a month. A lot can happen in a month he replied. Shoot in two weeks I met my future wife changed my entire life's trajectory and bought my first tie. You bought a tie I asked. Because honestly this was the most shocking part.

For as long as I could remember, other people had either overshadowed me or left me out in the open, alone. But Mac, as Layla had said all those weeks ago, was always somewhere nearby. He left me enough space to stand alone, but stood at the ready for the moment that I didn't want to. It was the perfect medium, I was learning. Like he was my saint, the one I'd been waiting for.

All I want is someone decent." She sniffled again, her eyes filling with tears. "You know? Kind. Good. Like in all those love stories I'm such an expert on. It can't just be fiction. It can't. Those guys are out there, I know it. I just can't find them." Those guys were out there. In fact, one was watching us right now, somewhere nearby. Keeping his distance, knowing she needed me to herself right then, but still, just outside the door.

It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.

We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.

I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m.

It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition. But as she ran a finger slowly across the faces, identifying each one, it occurred to me that maybe this was her answer. All those names, strung together like beads on a chain. Coming together, splitting apart, but still and always, a family. (page 289) ~Ruby

You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!

And don't change for a guy, ever, Leah added. If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.

Just because we don't see eye to eye on everything doesn't mean we can't be close.

I think she loves him, Lissa said. And love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you. Love is an excuse to put up with shit that you shouldn't, I replied

Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.

I planned my whole future around Adam, she said now, quietly. And now I have nothing. No, I told her, now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.

And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.

At every wedding someone stays home.

Sitting there, watching my sister, I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got itout, the story was really all that mattered.