Quotes About Relationships

That was how you lost people, a little carelessness and they just slipped through your fingers.

How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him? Ursula wondered. It seemed to her that in the search for arguments against marriage the existence of Maurice presented the very best one of all.

I have no idea how to love another human being unless it's by tearing them to pieces and eating them.

There were different categories of friends in Vince's opinion. Golf friends, work friends, old school friends, shipboard friends...but friend friends were harder to come by.

What do you think you're doing?" she asked when Jackson took his own phone out of his pocket. Another chippy woman, Jackson thought with a sigh. Chippy women wherever he went. Chippy mothers who begat chippy daughters and so the circle of chippiness was unbroken.

Boxes within boxes, dolls within dolls, worlds within worlds. Everything was connected. Everything in the whole world.

One of the things Jackson liked about Julia was her independence, one of the things he didn't like about Julia was her independence.

Really she was just like everyone else, she wanted to love someone. Even better if they loved you in return. She was considering getting a cat. She didn't really like cats though. That might be a bit of a problem. Quite liked dogs.

The mistake,' Sylvie said, 'is thinking that love equates with happiness.')

You couldn't necessarily judge a woman by the man she slept with. (Or could you?)

Sometimes," Sylvie said, "One can mistake gratitude for love.

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you

On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, 'I love you.' The real trick is to get them to say, 'Will you marry me?

A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.

I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.

Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.

A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.