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Quotes About Relationships

This is what happens. You meet people who are in pain, in life and love, and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.
~ Daniel Handler
Voy a tirar la caja entera de nuevo en tu vida, Ed, cada objeto tuyo y mío. Voy a tirarla en tu porche, Ed, aunque es a ti a quien estoy tirando.
~ Daniel Handler
There are stories about people who have loved someone forever after laying eyes on them for a few minutes and then nevermore, but these stories have not happened to anyone we know. No, when you love someone you spend hours and hours with them, and even the mightiest forces in the netherworld could not say whether the hours you spend increase your love or if you simply spend more hours with someone as your love increases
~ Daniel Handler
All over the world are particular people, and you could be happy with probably five or six of them, eight if you're bisexual and everyone is.
~ Daniel Handler
A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says. She walks down the streets and the storefronts look the same, even as we linger on their flickering reflections. The cars move quickly, slowly, quickly down the block. She gets coffee and says it tastes different, quitely, to herself.
~ Daniel Handler
Te quise y ahora te devuelvo tus cosas, las saco de mi vida igual que a ti.
~ Daniel Handler
Even with the right boy I'd wreck it," I said. "I'd join the navy on impulse and sail off right when he needed me, or we'd have a baby and I'd accidentally put it in my purse. The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights. I know they're the wrong boys and I just go to them.
~ Daniel Handler
This is love, to sit with someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to them until you stand up and it's time to go. You don't care about yours.
~ Daniel Handler
It turns out that having a best friend during adolescence is an important part of becoming a well-adjusted adult. Those without one are more likely to be bullied and marginalized and to carry these experiences into becoming disagreeable adults.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
Most often, couples who get together after months or years of online infatuation enact a twenty-first-century version of Icarus flying too close to the sun with his waxen wings: the real-life exposure quickly melts the fiber-optic cable that was holding the couple aloft, and they plummet into the sea, where they tend to flail about for a while, trying to rescue their former magic.
~ Daniel Jones
means he probably knows someone who knows a person who knows a guy." Tom
~ Daniel Judson
Because we tend to be nice to other people when they please us and nasty when they do not, we are statistically punished for being nice and rewarded for being nasty.
~ Daniel Kahneman
No, you don't understand because it isn't happening to you, and no one can understand but me. I don't blame you. You've got your job to do, and your Ph.D. to get, and-oh, yes don't tell me, I know you're in this largely out of love of humanity, but you've got your life to live and we don't happen to belong on the same level. I passed your floor on the way up, nad now I'm passing it on the way down, and I don't think I'll be taking this elevator again. So let's just say good-bye here and now.
~ Daniel Keyes
When you mature intellectually we may not be able to communicate. When you mature emotionally you may not even want me.
~ Daniel Keyes
I will never know. Whatever the truth is, I must not hate Rose
~ Daniel Keyes
She had agreed to go away when i tell her to go. It's painful to think about that, but what we have, I suspect, is more than most people find in a lifetime.
~ Daniel Keyes
Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain. "When I was retarded I had lots of
~ Daniel Keyes
I hated her as I had never hated anyone before—with her easy answers and maternal fussing. I wanted to slap her face, to make her crawl, and then to hold her in my arms and kiss her.
~ Daniel Keyes
Estava tudo bem enquanto eles pudessem rir de mim e parecer inteligentes à minha custa, mas agora eles se sentiam inferiores ao imbecil. Comecei a ver que, por meio do meu surpreendente crescimento, eu os fiz encolher e enfatizei suas inadequações. Eu os havia traído, e eles me odiavam por isso.
~ Daniel Keyes
Agora, cada vez que nos vemos, depois que deixo você, vou para casa com um sentimento miserável de que sou lenta e estúpida sobre tudo. Repenso coisas que disse e arranjo respostas brilhantes e espirituosas que deveria ter dito e tenho vontade de me chutar porque não as mencionei quando estávamos juntos.
~ Daniel Keyes
Eu me encontro querendo impressionar você de uma maneira que nunca pensei em fazer antes, mas estar com você debilitou minha autoconfiança. Eu questiono meus motivos agora, de tudo que faço.
~ Daniel Keyes
I realize now that my feeling for Alice had been moving backward against the current of my learning, from worship, to love, to fondness, to a feeling of gratitude and responsibility.
~ Daniel Keyes
Size ÅŸunu hipotez olarak sunuyorum: Sevgi alma ve sevgi verme yeteneÄŸinden yoksun olan zeka, zihinsel ve ahlaki çöküÅŸe, nevroza ve muhtemelen psikoza bile yol açar. Ve ben-merkezci bir amaca odaklanan ve insan iliÅŸkilerini d??layan bir beynin, sadece ÅŸiddete ve ac?ya neden olaca??n? da eklemek istiyorum.
~ Daniel Keyes
But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.
~ Daniel Keyes