Quotes About Relationships

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

Whether via social media or in person, building your relationships is a long-term process, and the ultimate goal is to strengthen your network one person at a time.

I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.

Taking time for each other is the key for harmony in the home [and in marriage].

Just so you know I never had a dad either, but that's another story for another time.

I'm doing something now where I'm going to have to learn so much and that takes time nurturing, those kinds of relationships.

The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him

The body does not end with our skin - it extends into time, into space, and into other people.

I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.

Food first, then talk. Life looks better on a full stomach. People become civilized when they break bread together. Margaret had taught me that.

felt that he just wanted somebody to keep a house clean for him and do the shopping and the cooking. He was always in the garage with his cars, working on them, doing something. All he wanted was food and sex, and that was it. Any time we did talk, it would end up in arguments.

As for the family home, Tom dropped into the house on Seventeenth almost every day, walking in unannounced as if he still lived there. Even Debby told him she didn't think that was fair to Kay. "I wouldn't blame her for changing the locks," she said. "I own that house," Tom answered. "I can go there anytime I want.

Every woman in love with a married man believes that her relationship is "special," that no one else feels as she does, and that her being with him isn't really illicit because the two of them are in love and there are extenuating circumstances. And, with rare exceptions, they all get hurt when they learn that their romance isn't special at all.

Tom took Susan to his mother's house and introduced her to Marguerite. Thereafter, when his mother referred to Susan, she called her "that slutty little girl," which Tom and Susan found hilarious. When he sent Susan notes, Tom addressed them to "Dear Slutty Little Girl.

Marriage founded upon deception can never lead to happiness.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they will no longer seem like strangers.

Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.

Part of the great wonder of reading is that it has the ability to make human beings feel more connected to one another, which is a great good, if not from a pedagogical point of view, at least from a psychological one.

the older we get, the more we understand that the women who know and love us - and love us despite what they know about us - are the joists that hold up the house of our existence.