Quotes About Relationships

Maybe we need house rules." He pulled back. "Like what?" "No kissing inside the house." "Ever?" "Well, at least not when Mom and Dad are home. Dad jokes about putting potential boyfriends through an interview process, but he may be serious. It's hard to tell sometimes with him." "It felt like he was interviewing me that first night." "Not to be my boyfriend." He sighed. "Okay. I see your point.

I can't tell him anything personal or important. I especially can't tell him anything like 'I think your roommate is God's gift to girls.' He'd make my life impossible.

It couldn't have worked out better, except of course, for poor Allie who was stuck at the far end of the table across from my brother. I was afraid if she spent too much time with him she might re-evaluate her friendship with me.

I was used to her getting what she wanted. Especially guys. I basically carry a mop to clean up their drool whenever she's around.

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy.

I will canoodle with a dumb man, but I won't snuggle with an asshole.

Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.

After the marriage, Edward changed along with everything else. The barriers came up all around her. Where once, on the outside, she had felt shut out of their exclusive family, now--on the inside--she was debarred from the rest of the world.

But we didn't love each other," he said matter-of-factly. It upset her to hear him say it. Someone should love her. Even her children-- they needed her, but she was the one who did the loving.

Love isn't rest. Love requires you, from time to time, to rip up your soul and replant it. To dare your lover to do the same. To muster sympathy where it seemed impossible. To be, perpetually, two kids joining hands, drawing breath, and deep diving.

Love must be, then, an act of truth-telling, a baring of mind and spirit just as ardent as the baring of the body. Truth and passion were one, and each impossible without the other.

You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them.

The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it's worthy of respect. It's not admirable to want love, it just is.

Isn't that what intimacy so often is? Supposing you understand, conveying that you do, because you feel in theory that you could understand, and you want to, and yet secretly you don't?

People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.

I was a kid. I didn't know about love, that you see someone and whether or not they say much, they make the world suddenly different, a mysterious and more alive place that you can access only through them. And the new, better world falls lifeless and flat when they go away.

Because I didn't move here to fall in love. The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it's worthy of respect. it's not admirable to want love it just is.

it is easier to like difficult people when they are leaving, or already gone.

Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos.

Floyd and Lloyd, his uncles by marriage, never spoke to each other. They were men of zero words to anyone, ever. They were men who lay watching TV, making women and children feel skittish and in trouble for existing.

The important matter of small-town hair p.17

You can't own someone for a dollar.

and it is easier to like difficult people when they are leaving, or already gone.

Assess the rightness of a potential partner on his own terms and not just by comparing him to the ones before him - especially if they broke your heart.