Quotes About Relationships

She knew one of the great family truths, that aunts always help, whilr moms always think it would be good for you if you did it yourself

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

Opa used to tease her. He would open her mouth and look at her teeth, like she was a horse. Then he would say, 'Callie, you are more than ten and less than a hundred.' Well, she was a poor girl, in the end.

But he was sixty-two when I was, born, and the novelty of daughters had worn away long before.

DR. LIONEL GIFT IS in bed with Arlen Martin, billionaire, but only in the Washington, D.C., sense.

He was turning out to be one of those men whose interest diminished as they got to know you. You got into this pattern of trying to be interesting by revealing more and more of yourself, like a salesman unpacking his sample bag, but the man, though he looked like he was smiling and paying attention, was really shaking his head internally—not that, not that either, no I don't think so, not today.

Hay cosas que podemos hacer sin problema en nuestra familia –comer tranquilamente, prestar dinero, contar secretos–, pero cuando nos juntamos, los ecos del pasado nos desbordan.

The women of this family leaned towards extremes.

For it began to occur to him that one way to become private was to respect another's privacy.

If you love a waist, you waste a love.

You may adore Love You Forever, but I hear it as a story about an overbearing and smothering mother who infantilizes her son and can only tell him she loves him when he is fast asleep. I also contend that she drugs his cocoa. And that when the man's baby daughter wakes up sixteen years later and finds him fondling her in her room, she will be calling 911 and going into therapy.

There were so many other things that he could add, that he doubted whether life without her offered him any pleasure at all, that he had hoped to recreate the happiness that had existed between his own parents in his union with her.

Amantium irae amoris integratio est A Latin saying that means Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love

Dulcibus est verbis mollis alendus amor which means By soft words must love be fostered

I checked my phone messages. Three in all. The first was from Joe. "Hey, Cupcake." That was it. That was the whole message. The second was from Ranger. "Yo." Ranger made Joe look like a chatterbox.

Cupcake , you've been breaking my heart for as long as I've known you

Men are like shoes. Some fit better than others. And sometimes you go out shopping and there's nothing you like. And then, as luck would have it, the next week you find two that are perfect, but you don't have the money to buy both.-

Next time I fall in love it's going to be with someone who isn't an expert in fibbing. You're in love with me? You didn't know that? I did, but it's nice to hear. Scares the hell out of me.

Joe I said. It's Stephanie. Does this involve death? Not yet. Does this involve sex? Not yet. I can't imagine why else you'd be calling me.

THERE ARE SOME MEN who enter a woman's life and screw it up forever. Joseph Morelli did this to me—not forever, but periodically.

Ranger cradled my face in his hands, using his thumbs to wipe the tears from my eyes. The ceremony is over. Can you make it back to the car? I nodded. I'm okay now. Am I red and blotchy from crying? Yes, Ranger said, brushing a kiss across my forehead. I love you anyway. There's all kinds of love, I said. Ranger took me by the hand and led me back to the SUV. This is the kind that doesn't call for a ring. But a condom might come in handy. That's not love, I told him. That's lust.

Stephanie Plum]Jeez. No True Love [Grandma Mazur] There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking you had it, or you talked yourself into thinking you didn't need it.

That's how you tell what a man's really made of. It's one thing for a man to be big and brave and kill a spider. Any man could do that. Trailin' after a woman when she's shopping for thongs and push-up bras is a whole other category of man. And then if you want to see how far you can go with it, you ask him to carry one of those little pink bags they give you.

My sex life is okay. Yeah, Morelli said. But sometimes it's fun to have a partner.