Quotes About Relationships

He was as kind and slow with me as he'd been that first summer and I pushed away all my anger and hurt and distrust because he owed me love.

simple women make the best wives.

thought about how love was always the thing that did that—smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt. .

I spent the remainder of the visit staring stupidly at the TV, answering Grandma's questions in single syllables and making faces at her cooking.

The truth, as I saw it, was that Daddy wouldn't have left if she hadn't always been Miss Doom and Gloom. "Pretty?" she said. "Really?" "Yeah, pretty ugly." Her lip shook. She reached for her spray. "God, I was only kidding," I said. "Can't you even take a joke?

I was on the brown plaid sofa, watching TV and Scotch-taping my bangs to my forehead because Jeanette said that kept them from drying frizzy. Across the room on the Barcalounger, my mother was having her nervous breakdown.

the body of Christ is not fundamentally about authority, but relationships.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you. -from To You

This is no book; Who touches this, touches a man; (Is it night? Are we here alone?) It is I you hold, and who holds you; I spring from the pages into your arms...

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand

Camerado, isto não é um livro, Quem nele tocar, toca num homem

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The weightiest objection to the mode of life of the confirmed bachelor: he eats by himself. Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse—it is only in company that eating is done justice.

Loneliness is when those you love are happy without you.

Acquaintances, after all, are little else than a bad habit.

Men whose constant companion was death needed women in a way most men couldn't understand.

He wished to please everybody, Franklin later said of Keith, and having little to give, he gave expectations.

Greg Calhoun, who became close to Jobs right after college, saw another effect.

Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had changed his mind and decided to stay. Despite the blowup the day before, he was still eager for Jobs to like him. So he agreed to meet the next afternoon.

My parents were very open with me about that," he recalled.

Life will be happier for the on-line individual because the people with whom one interacts most strongly will be selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity." J. C. R. Licklider and Robert Taylor, "The Computer as a Communication Device," Science and Technology , Apr. 1968.