Quotes About Relationships

Don't try to be someone you're not at the beginning of a relationship. Know who you are, accept and love yourself unconditionally -

Everyone's got their own way of loving. There's no such thing as 'supposed to

I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.

Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.

Sometimes just being in someone's presence is strong medicine.

Medicine is as close to love as it is to science, and its relationships matter even at the edge of life itself.

The rifts in this ancient wall continue to be patched with exhortations to women to avoid challenging the norm even if it means faking orgasm and sacrificing honesty in their intimate relationships with men. In the past we have been willing to pay this price; whether we should continue to do so is question for individuals; not historians, to decide.

Deeply vulnerable and hurting within as you act tough outside. You do need people; you need them so much so that it scares you to death. You drive them away so they don't get too close; yet you regret it every time you do.

Missing someone meant that you are fortunate to love someone in the first place. If you don't miss them you don't love them

Male and female friends are always only just-the-tip away from being more.

It's better this way anyways. I probably need to find someone to settle down with. It's about that time. Have the two point five kids, fake orgasms, and wallow in a stagnant career.

I want you," he says. "You said you didn't know what I wanted from you. I'm telling you. I want you. I want you to be mine. That's all I know for sure.

What did I do, Win? You just left. You were supposed to come to my house. If it was too much, too soon, you should have told me. I'd never pressure you to do anything you didn't want to do. That's it, right? That has to be it.

I'll always wonder what could have been with Steven Warner, but he never showed any interest outside of friendship so I never pushed it.

I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that.

There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.

Perceiving a choice between her feelings and her relationships, Dana chose to be liked by others. But the self she displayed was a mask of the person she though others wanted her to be. The Curse of the Good Girl obscured and shamed the most important parts of who she was.

Adolescents, especially girls, are most resilient when they are connected to others.

Maybe we are all Beths, boarding other people's life journeys, or letting them hop aboard ours. For a while we ride together. A few minutes, a few miles. Companions on the road, sharing our air and our view, our feet swaying to the same beat. Then you get off at your stop, or I get off at mine. Unless we decide to stay on longer together. p 251

When change happened to an individual, it happened to everyone around her - sometimes in ways she wished for, though sometimes in ways she wished against" Lynnie p 228-229

I realize, as the tightness yields in my shoulders and hips and feet, that Beth might well have wanted me to meet her drivers because I needed them, too." p 167

Please, we're in high school. Hook up and move on.

Love makes us stupid, sometimes.

I have standards. Well, okay, they're love standards, but I have them.