Quotes About Relationships

Nonsense. One day, the right man will come along, and you'll change your mind." Harriet wasn't so sure. In all her twenty-four years, she'd never met a single man who had managed to make her feel anything more than acute irritation.

As Dougal ushered them into the dining room, he wondered if Sophia's father and her grandfather would both wish to stay at MacFarlane House with them. But as he looked into Sophia's smiling eyes, he realized it didn't matter. So long as she was by his side, life would be a grand adventure. And no man could ask for more.

One should never ask a man questions about his personal life. He just might answer and then you, my dear, would have to listen.

Me mam, bless her soul, tol' me tha' was the worst thing ye could be to a man—convenient.

Beth sighed. "I want a relationship, but then again…I don't." To her surprise, Grandfather cackled. "That's quite normal, my girl. Quite normal indeed. There are no guarantees in this life. You have to take what you can get and enjoy it while you have it.

Men never understand that all a woman truly wants is a man who will listen.Understand.Pay her bills.And,of course,love her madly even when her hips wide due to an unfortunate addiction to bon bons. - Lady Jersey to Mrs.Cowper,as the two watched dancers waltz at Almack's.

An uncle?" Christian looked from his brother, to his sister-in-law. "But…how?" Prudence laughed, Beth chiming in. Tristan shook his head ruefully. "I will explain it to you later." "No, no! I didn't mean that! I just—when did this happen? How long have you known?

Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.

Over the years I've come to feel that the way people respond to us has less to do with what we've done and more to do with who they are.

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

IN EVERYONE'S LIFE there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken away against their will.

Like they say, you never know a person till you've done time with them.

I couldn't fit my whole self into a marriage, no matter who my husband was. There were parts of me that John liked, and different parts for the others, but no one could deal with all of me, So I'd lop some part off, but then I'd start missing it, wanting it back.

Maybe friendship was not as big a deal as I'd thought and I actually had lots of friends.

Threadbare, ravaged by love – as who amongst us is not.

I've often been accused of harnessing genre strategies to mainstream ends. I do concede that relationships, characters, and introspection are my primary interest. The fanciful is of a secondary order of importance; I usually use it to approach the large issue of perception, so that my fantastical elements, while intended as real within the stories, occupy some borderland between reality and psychology.

We don't choose whom we love," he told Maura, so gently that she knew he knew. If she wasn't going to be loved in return, she would have liked not to be pitied for it. She got neither of these wishes. "But people have this advantage over swans, to put their unwise loves aside and love another. Not me. I'm too much swan for that.

The other guy is obviously meant for me. He's quite short. I don't care about that. I'm quite short myself. I prefer beta males to alphas. Only he keeps telling me to smile. Nothing's as bad as all that, he says. If I were five years old, I'd have bitten him by now.

There seemed no end to the insane things fathers did to their families.

Before, my brother was part of the family. After, he was just killing time until he could be shed of us.

Over the years I've come to feel that the way people respond to us has less to do with what we've done and more to do with who they are.

People earn the way they are missed.

Under that sexy cap, he had the brains of bivalve and I was glad not to be the one sleeping with him.

She recognized that great love carries a price of great torment if it ends, but it also bestows a greater and more valuable gift.