Quotes About Relationships

Don't fight with Mael. What could be the outcome, but two wounded creatures hating each other even more than now?

Geliebten Lakaien are once again here with us. Lisa, Heddy, Henrietta, Peter, and Jean Pierre

I didn't like seeing blood on him any more than I liked seeing it on Merrick. It struck me hard how much I loved them both.

We injure those we love.

Time eventually destroyed our love for one another. Time withered our gentle intimacy. Time devoured whatever conversations or pleasures we once agreeably shared.

Nunca en mi vida he dejado de amar a nadie que haya querido.

The ones we love become our burdens in death, and this is how we remain connected to them.

Give men enough time and they will turn on anyone.

But what endures is what has always mattered: love—that we love one another as surely as we are alive. And

Why was I so jealous? Why did this knowledge sting me so much?

You seek a family, always and everywhere.

It's a lie that I hold him high in my affections. My life is full of such lies.

Be careful who you love. They'll be part of you always. Even after the love is long dead, the fuckers'll be part of you.

You will have to grow up to her quickly, I thought, surprising myself, or you will lose her.

People may say . . . that all is made up and well again, but such breaches between great people are seldom or never so.

I had rather live in a cottage with you than reign empress of all the world without you.

So ended . . . a royal friendship which once could not be contained within the common bounds of love.

Many people shared the view expressed by the diarist Samuel Pepys 'that he that doth get a wench with child and marries her afterward, it is as if a man should shit in his hat and then clap it upon his head'.2

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

He had no idea what Jilly Lovitz would appreciate or not. And why the hell did her name have so many fucking L's in it? She'd probably done it on purpose, just to annoy him.

it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.

They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running.

That was one of the worst things about losing your wife, I found: your wife is the very person you want to discuss it all with.

It wasn't what you said, he told her.It was how I felt when you said it.