Quotes About Relationships

Mother, I don't dream of marrying a prince and riding off into the sunset. That's a good thing, my darling, because there are no princes - only men and animals who pretend to be men.

I'm not in love with Eiadh because she's the most beautiful young woman in Basilica and therefore quite probably in the entire world. I'm in love with her because we can talk together, because of the way she thinks, the sound of her voice, the way she cocks her head to listen to an idea she doesn't agree with, the way she rests her hand on mine when she's trying to persuade me.

It's better to lose someone you love...than to have no one to lose.

Lanik : - Je suis en train de perdre Saranna. L'Homee-qui-sais-tout : - C'est très bien. Peresonne ne doit posséder quelqu'un d'autre. >>

If you can understand why he's biting and remove the conditions that make him bite, sometimes that can solve the problem as well. The dog isn't dead. He isn't even your enemy.

You did hurt me. And I hurt you. It's a popular pastime here.

Shy people might take their doses of companionship like an ill-tasting medicine, but they need it, and they suffer a thousand maladies, physical and mental, if they don't have it.

You're bigger than I remembered, she said stupidly. You too, he said. I also remembered that you were beautiful. Memory does play tricks on us. No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.

Does a daughter judge her father?" whispered Qing-jao. "Of course she does," said Father. "Every day all people judge all other people. The question is whether we judge wisely.

From a friend you need to take crap. But I'm not your friend. I'm your father. And nobody needs to take crap from their father.

And why shouldn't a grown man live with his mother? Mothers were a rare and precious commodity and if you had one, why in the world would leave her?

So? Sometime or other everybody wishes everybody would go away. Sometimes I'll wish you would go away. What I'm telling you now is that even at those times, even if I tell you to go away, you don't have to go away.

If good people weren't so trusting of bad ones, the human race would have died out long ago—most women never would have let most men near them.

I wonder what it would be like to love and trust a man so much that I'd be willing to abase myself as Kate did. Is there something in women that makes us long to be humbled? Or is it something in human beings, that when we are overmastered, we rejoice in our subjection?

When you really know somebody, you can't hate them.' 'Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them.

You only feel that way because the boy you love is not aware enough of his own feelings to make things clear to you or even to himself.

I suspect that this is the true tragedy of the human condition. The more closely we're involved with other people, the more isolated and misunderstood we feel. Because nobody can possible know us, and we can't possible know anybody, not even ourselves. Wakers, p 427/566

Cambiar al mundo es bueno para aquellos que quieren su nombre en los libros. Pero ser feliz... eso es para aquellos que escriben sus nombres en las vidas de los demás y retienen los corazones de otros como el tesoro más preciado.

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You

you never knew why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even knew themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear. Valentine

It was wrong of me to value my own pain so highly that I thought it gave me the right to inflict more on him.

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.

When you love people, you do whatever it takes to make them happy.