Quotes About Relationships

Were those exact words said: 'I no longer love you'?" "No." "No. Hardly anybody ever says it like that, do they? They simply become unkind.

I hate that my life is teaching me that I can only be loved if I put my love out of reach and just drift above people until they love my remoteness.

Sometimes I say terrible things to him because I don't want him to know I'm sad; sometimes I fly off the handle to hide the fact that I don't know what I'm talking about. And other times--too often, maybe--I don't dare have an opinion in case it upsets anyone.

It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be

When he's a bachelor, life's tough because he has everything he needs except Miss Right, and when he finds a sweetheart with the full package—beauty, brains, sweet temper—she's too much, she's smothering him.

I have plenty of people around me to talk to, and no one to be honest with

Half of the hatred that springs up between people is rooted in their mistaken belief that there is any human relationship more sacred than friendship.

If love diminishes, it quickly fails and rarely revives.

And there we all were, Miranda, her father, her brother and I, sharing oxygen around a dinner table

At that time I had to keep meeting people and meeting people in case one of them was someone I could marry.

I met St. John at Clara Lee's soiree—she was great friends with my mother, and at that time I had to keep meeting people and meeting people in case one of them was someone I could marry.

The situation improved once it occurred to them that they should also talk; as they came to understand each other they learned that what they'd been afraid of was running out of self. On the contrary the more they loved the more there was to love

Her superpower was picking emotionally unavailable partners and she doubted she'd get a better offer

I've been so afraid of getting closeness wrong, because I don't know how to do it, because I don't know what my mistakes reveal --maybe they reveal very good reasons for my having been unloved as a child, I just don't know.

Isn't that what you thought you'd bought . . . affectionate obedience? Somebody who wouldn't feel any more or any less than you wanted her to feel, someone who'd love but not dare to—whatever it turns out I've dared to do. But really you shouldn't be surprised this happened; this is what you get for placing people in your debt in such a way that they can never repay it!

Do you think we'd still be standing here if he had shown up? What do you think we'd be doing here?' I asked. I got away with it because I put the question as if I was curious rather than just giving sass. But one of the boys told Louis, 'I guess your girlfriend likes to talk.

Dad and Lily would never have this, they would never be old together and think inside each other's clockwork.

Do you know what lobotomy is?" - "I think so. It's when they operate and remove parts of your brain, right?" - "Right. Boyfriends are the same thing. They shrink your brain. Any female who really wants to be able to think for herself shouldn't be wasting her time on boys.

Harriet read more voraciously than Simon and Margot ever had. They discouraged this; she'd be so bored once she ran out of texts that were new to her. She surprised them with the discovery that once an avid reader runs out of books, she reads people. Harriet read everybody she met, and when she met them again, she reread them.

there's a part of my heart or mind, or some spot where the two meet, a spot that isn't mine because I'm a wife. This part isn't really me at all, but a promise I made on a snowy day. A promise to stay and to be with (him) and to be good to him, and when there's no other way, I have to go to that promise to find my feeling for my husband. We walk the finest of foolish, foolish lines.... How can anybody love anybody else for more than five minutes?

I think they must have recognized something in each other, some poorly concealed intensity that other people find nerve-racking.

The book itself was useless, too. All the advice it offered about the timing of meals and affecting a cheerful disposition and trying to take an interest in the husband's doings even when they're fearfully boring and never saying 'I told you so'--those aren't the reasons a person looks with favour upon another person, these aren't the reasons someone stays in love.

If you've...got someone within ten minutes' walk who can make you laugh and someone else within a five-minute walk who can help you mourn, you're a millionaire.

She'd left me her husband, who didn't expect much from me. He'd had his great love. And now he was willing, determined even, to be amused, to belly laugh at the slightest provocation, to appreciate heart-shaped pieces of toast as tokens of my affection.