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Quotes About Relationships

Alive, her body belonged to him; dead, she was his ghost.
~ Eileen Chang
Maybe every man has two such women—at least two. Marry a red rose and eventually she'll be a mosquito-blood streak smeared on the wall, while the white one is "moonlight in front of my bed." Marry a white rose, and before long she'll be a grain of sticky rice that's gotten stuck to your clothes; the red one, by then, is a scarlet beauty mark just over your heart.
~ Eileen Chang
He had no desire to discuss Manzhen with anyone: talking about it would only miss the point, like scratching a shoe to get at an itchy spot underneath the leather.
~ Eileen Chang
Man attains not by himself, nor woman by herself, but like the one-winged birds of the ancient legend, they must rise together.
~ Eileen Goudge
Besos desesperados que hablaban de finales, más que de comienzos
~ Eileen Goudge
you can love more than one person, each love with its own subtle shadings, one maybe stronger but not necessarily canceling out the other.
~ Eileen Goudge
She had come to the end with Brian, and there was only bittersweet nostalgia.
~ Eileen Goudge
Looking at him now, she saw a study in contrasts. Someone who was kind and loyal but who could also be stubborn and intractable; who was his own man but also your typical man from Mars; who was always there for her but who had a tendency to hold back when showing his own emotions; who was forgetful at times but who never forgot was was most important. In short, someone who wasn't perfect but perfect for her, because of rather than in spite of his flaws.
~ Eileen Goudge
as poison that reaches the blood spreads through the body, so does the love of gossip spread through the soul of woman.
~ Eileen Goudge
He would always love her, in one way. But was love ever that simple? One thing and not another? Defining how he felt about Rose would be like trying to cut a piece out of the sky.
~ Eileen Goudge
And a ring … it is empty in the middle. The emptiness can be filled only by the person who wears it.
~ Eileen Goudge
By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.
~ Eileen Kennedy-Moore
I think being with a person is better than caring about them. I cared about them. I cared about them more than their relatives did, and I didn't care about them at all.
~ Eileen Myles
Because rich people need poor friends (but not too poor!) to maintain their connection to the struggle that spawned them even if they never struggled. Poor people tend to know what's going on plus they are often good-looking, at least when they are young and even later they are the cool interesting people the rich person once slept with, so the poor person always feathers the nests of the rich.
~ Eileen Myles
But I also know that someone who's constantly trying to fix you is implying that you're broken.
~ Eileen Rendahl
He wanted slow. He wanted lingering and teasing, and she was not in a patient mood. As with so much in a relationship, compromise was key.
~ Eileen Wilks
Alicia doesn't approve of lupi, but she went to bed with one?" "Amazing. After working homicide, you still think people are consistent.
~ Eileen Wilks
Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention
~ Eileen Wilks
We aren't guaranteed the time we think we need to mend fences with those we love.
~ Eileen Wilks
My feelings were hurt. Once I started I couldn't seem to let it go. Be strange if the person who matters most in the whole world couldn't hurt your feelings, wouldn't it?
~ Eileen Wilks
Og ástin blómstrar – eða fölnar. Það er ekkert ljós án skugga, engin hamingja án óhamingju. Ástin kemur alltaf við sögu.
~ Einar Már Guðmundsson
Meira að segja Geir Vídalín, okkar góði og meinlausi biskup sem hallmælti engum, sagði um "consul Jón Parker" að þar færi afar "óviðfelldinn og fégjarn" maður. Þegar Jörgen var farinn sást James Savignac æ oftar í fylgd með Guðrúnu Johnsen og
~ Einar Már Guðmundsson
You can't decide how someone will go about loving you.
~ Eireann Corrigan
It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
~ Eknath Easwaran