Quotes About Relationships

He almost felt like he was betraying Julia. But what did he owe her? It's not like she even would have cared. And Professor Sunderland was here. He wanted somebody who was part of his new world. Julia had her chance.

being around him wasn't good for Quentin. He could feel himself regressing in the direction of an adolescent tantrum—it was like trying to talk to his parents. He lost all perspective on who he was and how far he'd come.

Oh, that was a droll little affair,' said Peters. 'Forget about it. You know what women are like? They're like those long, skinny blocks you get in Tetris, the ones made out of four blocks straight in a row. First when you need them you can't get any, then when you don't need them anymore they're fucking everywhere and you don't know what to do with them.

But what good was greatness if you didn't love?

The problem with growing up," Quentin said, "is that once you're grown up, people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

Remember what a good girl I was? Remember how meek and pleasing I was to everybody? For the first time in my life I could just be. That was always part of the problem, Quentin. I felt like I had to be interested in you all the time. You wanted love so desperately, and I thought it was my job to give it to you. Poor little lost boy! That's not love, that's hell. And I was getting a taste of heaven. I was a blue angel now.

Tutte le famiglie felici si assomigliano fra loro, ogni famiglia infelice è infelice a suo modo.

Every girl is proud of an offer - Yes, every girl, but not she

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

It just shows--if I may say so--how blind Love is. If this had happened to anybody else, you would be the first to see, on the face of it, that anything like a flirtation between the Lady of the Velvet Case and your husband is one of those hopeless impossibilities that only the wildly imaginative and charming people who have no relation to real life, like yourself, could possibly conceive.

I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn't get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or make fun of it. I used to spend hours reading in the bathroom -- and we only had one bathroom in our small apartment!

Toxic people cost us our energy and our ability to think clearly. So I'm saying ... let's get the toxic people out.

People who have found everything disappointing are surprised and pained when marriage proves no exception. Most of the complaints about ... matrimony arise not because it is worse than the rest of life, but because it is not incomparably better.

The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations -- these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit -- immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.

Circular giving differs from reciprocal giving in several ways. First, when the gift moves in a circle no one ever receives it from the same person he gives it to. I

There is great pain in all love, but we don't care, it's worth it.

Not surprisingly, physical exercise and diet are key to healthy aging; the research proves that beyond any doubt. But serving others, maintaining healthy relationships, being in nature, and having an active spiritual life—topics central to this book—are equally important. Inner and outer aging are close partners. Until we can find the inner enjoyment of which Suzuki spoke, exercise and diet alone will not suffice to make us content.

Entrepreneurs succeed when they function as bridges between different kinds of networks.

When your parents divorce, it makes you grow up fast. I'd urge parents to strongly consider working things out. I'd work things out and I'd definitely stay put.

I feel like I've really made Laguna my home, and I've got this overwhelming urge now to sort of make friends.