Quotes About Relationships

Male bonding groups are associations of loners. The male values a companion whom he can stand up against and who can stand up against him: each receives assurance from the other's decently adversative stance, for it reminds him of his own needs and resources. This masculine intense friendly aggression is foreign to most women's experience.

The point is not at all that you are found interesting or fascinating instead of being seen as a fellow I. The shock is rather that you are not found interesting or fascinating at all: you are not recognized as an object any more than a subject. You are accepted, if at all, as one to be spoken at and spoken of; but when you are spoken of, the lord of every story will be I.

But a solitary suffers terribly from any suspicion concerning the few people he loves—especially

We're a telephone family, strung out along the wires, sharing our news in loops and daisy chains. We don't meet face-to-face much, and when we do there's a dematerialized feeling, as though only half of our molecules are present.

They lived in a blurry world, those two, where clear, consistent intentions weren't required.

I'd forgotten this about women: so many conditions. A man shouldn't take them to heart, and yet he does, because he doesn't want to be alone.

Trustin' a woman is like walkin' in California," Coydog would say. "You know there's bound to be a quake sometimes but you just keep on walkin' anyways. What else could you do?

Blood may be thicker than water, but family has them both beat.

had a girlfriend named Lana who told me she loved me but said that her impression of life was that people should live alone, answerable to no one. This, she said, made love a true choice and not a duty that inevitably transmogrified into spite.

There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.

THE EMERGENCY ROOM at any hospital in the middle of the night is mainly made up of the consequences of love.

It's a disheartening feeling when you can't stand the touch of someone but neither can you push them away.

Daddy!" she cried. "Are you okay?" There are ten thousand perfectly good reasons not to have children but hearing the love in Feather's voice trumped every one.

What's that got to do with a few gray hairs?" Angelo wanted to know. "Girl see one or two and she thinks maybe the man done aged enough to calm down, make somethin' outta himself. She willin' to let him look so maybe she could see what his prospects are like. That way a man like me might get a great night or a lifetime of pot roasts, fat babies, and halfhearted regrets.

Some people live according to love and being loved—if only a little.

You know love is true when it survives the devastation it causes.

I had a girlfriend named Lana who told me she loved me but said that her impression of life was that people should live alone, answerable to no one. This, she said, made love a true choice and not a duty that inevitably transmogrified into spite.

Women didn't necessarily need good men to excite them. What they needed, and most men needed too, was somebody who understood their desires and their fears—not necessarily in that order.

Men and women search for love, find it, and then wake up one morning to the harsh reality that the cap was left off and the precious passion has dried up.

As every reader has experienced who may have chanced to be in such a situation, it is extremely difficult to maintain the full dignity of an offended person, in the presence of a beautiful girl, whatever reason we may have for being angry with her.

Alas! how many ways does woman's affection find to work out her own misery!

Chapter X Rose Bradwardine and her Father

Real loves means a yielding of the heart to another person. It means commitment, loyalty, and trust.

We're all human and disagreements come up even between two people who are deeply in love.