Quotes About Relationships

Love and honor, treasures above value

He loved her, yet knew he'd go to his grave without having any understanding of what went on inside her mind.

All right then, I will," she said, delicately dabbing at the corners of her mouth with her napkin. "Safe sex, Nicholas." "Yes, dear," Viola agreed. She circle the table, collecting the plates, "We want you to practice safe sex…shall we have dessert?

The names of the list mean something. Every one. They mean something to me. Everyone means something to someone.

It seemed a miracle that any man who loved a woman might be loved by her in return.

She does not remember saying to you, the other night, right after your father left the room, He loves me more than I love him. She does not remember saying to you, a moment later, I can hardly wait until he comes back.

Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.

My brother wrote another refrigerator magnet poem, when he was probably nineteen or twenty: 'When the flood comes/ I will swim to a symphony/ go by boat to some picture show/ and maybe I will forget about you.' How did he know way, way back then? How is it I know only now?

When a "regrettable incident" has been encoded and stored in memory, it can be both at an implicit and explicit level, and it can alter how we feel about another person in ways that persist for long periods of time following the experience.

If a man truly loves, he gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings.

As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.

I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.

Can this be love that twists and tears the heart so? Does love give nothing but the power to hurt each other? Is this what makes the simplest touch blend longing and terror in equal measure? Whatever this is, it feels like a mortal wound.

Allow someone to become too dear to you and you give your enemy a weapon more deadly than the sharpest sword, more lethal than the strongest poison.

Not so easy. Give your heart to someone and you spend your life in fear of losing them. In terror of seeing them hurt.

Being friends, that's a big thing for some folk. One good friend can change your whole life.

Just because you're bron to someone, it doesn't mean you belong to them.

You are being very demanding indeed. Where, I wonder, will we find the woman to satisfy you You really should have stayed single--all woman-worshippers should be single. They never find the woman who answers all the requirements.

she basked gratefully in the warmth of her husband's love

Si dice che un amore eccessivo susciti un odio cento volte più grande.

To Yukiko, however, drawn as she was to the past, there was something very unsatisfactory about this brother in law, and she was sure that from his grave her father too was reproaching Tatsuo.

He has no intention of being misled by her. On the contrary, he laughs to himself that he's deceiving her.

According to tradition, my great-grandfather married early, at 14, with a woman six years older. It was considered to be one of the duties of the wife to raise her husband.

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.