Quotes About Relationships

Por qué estaba deprimido? —preguntó ella. —No podría explicarlo —frunció las cejas—. No hay unos motivos concretos, excepto que para mí la vida carece de sentido, a menos de que la viva para otra persona. He estado viviendo para usted desde septiembre... aunque no la conocía.

Why did women think, Vic wondered, even women who had married for love and had had a child in a fairly happy married life, that they would prefer a man who demanded nothing of them sexually? It was a kind of sentimental harking back to virginity a silly, vain fantasy that had no factual validity whatsoever.

It might destroy everything, even the solidity of Carol's body beside her, and the bend of Carol's body in the black sweater seemed the only solid thing in the world.

Ser incapaz de amar puede convertirse en una enfermedad.

You say you love me however I am and when I curse. I say I love you always, the person you are and the person you will become.

Besides, it isn't appropriate for a man to divorce his wife. She should divorce him. – Victor Van Allen

Therese Belivet: I never asked for anything! Maybe that's the problem!

Ser incapaz de amar puede convertirse en una enfermedad, ¿no crees?

I say I love you always, the person you are and the person you will become.

And she wondered, as she had often wondered before, if Richard liked her only because she was more sympathetic with his ambitions than anyone else he happened to know now, and because he felt her criticism was a help to him.

Why I love you Patricia Highsmith, will forever remain a Freudian enigma.

De pronto le pareció, que el amor erótico y el amor romántico, no era nada más que una forma o varias formas del ego. Por consiguiente, lo que había que hacer era dirigir el ego de uno mismo hacia destinatarios que no fuesen personas, o hacia personas de las que uno no esperase nada. El amor podia ser puro, pero sólo si no era egoista.

They'd had their minds snatched, their souls snared, their peckers hung with golden chains attached to the women in their lives.

When Cade entered a while later, he found her sitting stiffly in the rocking chair, a sleepy Serena on her lap cuddling her doll. Lily's eyes were blank and full of pain as they met his, and Cade seemed to feel her anguish spilling into him. He was an outsider, a man who never got close to anyone, but somehow this woman had got inside of him. He didn't like the feeling, but there wasn't anything he could do about it now. Jack's

Mary didn't know just what prompted her answer. She was the most candid of women, but you don't tell a man everything where another woman is concerned.

What you do to your enemies today, you will do to your friends tomorrow.

Do the nieces come to see her? Oh, yes, now and then, out of a spirit of duty. But they dread these visits. They know they will have to sit and listen for hours to half-veiled reproaches. They will be treated to an endless litany of bitter complaints and self-pitying sighs. And when this woman can no longer bludgeon, browbeat, or bully her nieces into coming to see her, she has one of her "spells." She develops a heart attack.

Principle 1 - Don't criticize, condemn or complain.

we should never forget that all our associates are human beings and hunger for appreciation. It is the legal tender that all souls enjoy.

If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

gentleness and friendliness were always stronger than fury and force.

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.

people are growing more socially isolated than they were even twenty years ago:

Why is that true? Because when our friends excel us, they feel important; but when we excel them, they—or at least some of them—will feel inferior and envious.