Quotes About Relationships

Can one heart love two boys at once?

Non far dimenticare all'altro chi era. Dell'amore faceva parte anche questo.

Verwandtschaft ist eben keine Garantie für Liebe.

Let him alone," said Merlin. "Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come and easy-go." T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone

A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were not substitute for love itself.

I don't even know who I was crying for. Me? Sruthi? Both? "Can I give you a hug?" Tanisha was a trailblazer in the whole consent movement.

Once you've been a shotgun person for a while, it's hard to imagine anything else, and you start using stupid terms like 'human nature' to describe it. If being a selfish, untrusting asshole is human nature, then how do we form friendships? Where do families come from?

Moreover, he successively buried three wives;

I figured a woman can't be understood the way a man can. Women have purposes men can't even imagine.

It boiled down to this: it's a lot harder to love than to hate. Harder to be there for those you love—to see them get older, get sick, be taken from you in sudden awful ways. Hate's dead simple. You can hate an utter stranger from a thousand miles away. It asks nothing of you. It eats you from the inside out but it takes no effort or thought at all."—Craig Davidson from Cataract City

A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB

It was expected that men would marry, and it was assumed something was wrong if they didn't. Later rabbis often quoted the saying, "He who has no wife dwells without good, without help, without joy, without blessing, and without atonement" (Gen. Rab. 17.2)!

Never to be squandered.....the miracle of another human being.

Barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.

Shvets's assessment is strikingly similar to those of various CIA officers. "Trump is extremely vulnerable to flattery," Rolf Mowatt-Larssen told me. "He almost defines relationships entirely by who flatters him and who doesn't, as opposed to the intrinsic value of what people say. He doesn't care at all about the fact that Russians are masters at manipulation.

Everything we do, you see, has its consequences and repercussions, every kind act, and every bad, every friend we make, and every enemy. Everything is connected.

Everything we do, you see, has its consequences and repercussions, every kind act and every bad one, every friend we make... and every enemy. Everything is connected.

We would be thousands of miles apart from now on and we would go on with our lives and get older and change and grow, but we would never have to look for each other. Inside each of us, I was pretty sure, was a place for the other. Nothing that had happened and nothing that would ever happen would make that less true.

Wasn't that what all stories said?You felt it, like a pang in your heart, when something was happening to someone you love

There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.

When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

Aren't we all just looking for someone to talk about everything with? Someone worth the effort of telling our stories and opinions to, whose stories and opinions we actually want to hear?

I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.