Quotes About Relationships

The best thing about a small town is that you grow up knowing everyone. It is also the worst thing.

But I had married a fine and comely girl, and with brilliance and craft and all instincts of self-preservation jettisoned, I succeeded over the years, through neglect, coldness, and betrayal, in turning her into the exact image of my mother.

Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.

I don't know when my parents began their war against each other – but I do know the only prisoners they took were their children.

Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.

the hardships and perils that eat around the edges of even the strongest loves.

It seemed to me that their love was based on their common need for order and mannerliness in their lives. Both had endured lives of chaos and incivility in their first marriages, and they provided each other with safe harbor at last. The town of Waterford had

I'm not mentally ill," she insisted, fidgeting in her chair. "I'm just very neurotic and I'm always falling in love with assholes.

They love their families with their hearts and souls and they wage war against them to prove it.

I still believe that they both loved us deeply, but, as with many parents, their love proved to be the most lethal thing about them.

Young girls have an infinite capacity for being attracted to the wrong sort of men.

Both of them became adept at killing off the best qualities of the other. In some ways, there was something classic and quintessentially American in their marriage. They began as lovers and ended up as the most dangerous and unutterable of enemies. As lovers, they begat children; as enemies, they created damaged, endangered children.

When we cuss each other out, call each other the vilest names on earth, and put each other down with thoughtless cruelty, it is the only way we know and the only language we have to express our ardent love for each other.

I'm sorry your bad dream died, I said as I left her and walked toward the gate. And I'm sorry I ever met you, Annie Kate.

single insincere phoneme, piss me off? Why can't I ignore her

surface my wife's most vicious

My mother yelled at Piedmont several times, much to my keen embarrassment. (Mothers have no sense of restraint when it comes to the honor of their children

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Trust is extremely fragile, and although building it can take extensive amounts of time over the course of many personal interactions, it can be destroyed (withdrawn) within seconds.

But you had a right to be angry." "Yes. But not to hurt those I love, or myself.

He could pick my heart like a rose and watch it wither in his hand. Sometimes I think he is like that. At other times I think he is as simple and golden and generous as our father's fields. And then I see things in his eyes - things that I have never looked at, and I know that I have walked a short and easy road out of my past, while he has walked a thousand roads to meet me. I know Perrin's past; the same road runs into his future. I don't know Corbet.

You--cannot ever be certain of those you love--that they will not hurt you, even loving you. But to make me certain to love you, will be to take away any love I might give you freely.

I could barely do more than watch the rich tapestry they were of their glances and slow smiles, the words they spoke that said one thing to my father, and another to me, while the ivy, growing secretly all around us, whispered warnings.

Nobody, living or dead, makes things easy even when you love them. Especially then.