Quotes About Relationships

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.

The irony is that some men use money to attract women but hate gold diggers and some women use their body to attract men but hate to be viewed as sex objects.

Truth without love doesn't work. Some people use the truth like a weapon. They don't tell the truth; they aim it. The truth sometimes hurts, but it doesn't have to maim, kill, or destroy. As

Love that speaks in grand terms about loving everyone yet does nothing to meet in practical ways the need of the person who stands in front of it is not true love. Love

If you are going to have healthy relationships, you'll need to spend time alone with God. Paradoxically, those who have the healthiest relationships often are the most comfortable in being alone with God.

A lifetime in the business had taught her that, apart from the few good people that work along-side you,nobody is to be trusted,ever,because sooner or later they'll let you down,sure as God made little green apples. And, when you came to think of it,hadn't that been the dirtiest trick of them all?

The love game is never called off on account of darkness.

Couples will no longer spend their nights in their houses dedicated to habitation and reception, the customary social reason for banalization. The chamber of love will be more remote from the center of the city: it will completely naturally re-create for the partners the notion of ex-centricity, in a place less open to the light, more hidden, in order to return to the atmosphere of the secret. The contrary move, the search for a center of thought, will proceed by the same technique.

Distance means so little, when someone means so much.

I'm saying she looks fine on the outside, but inside is somebody who's going to need a man a lot more than he's going to need her.

You know, for a while there we kept horses for the boys, and we had a mare that had broken down. Couldn't ride it... You could feed it and brush it and water it and all. Sometimes, I've thought that's what most marriages get to. A horse you still care a little about but cannot any longer ride.

It is the first shower that wets." "Marriage is like picking the place where you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blind fold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart." "Our marriage, like all marriages, was happy until it wasn't

I will always care for you, even if we're not together and even if we're far, far away.

One moral of this little story might be that once you've burned a bridge with lies, it may be that nothing short of divine intervention can rebuild the relationship and create a positive result.

Marriage is the legal method devised to end love without pain.

Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.

That's why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.

Jill felt an emptiness open inside of her as she lifted her arm, a sense that something vital was being subtracted from her life. It was always like that when somebody you cared about went away, even when you knew it was inevitable, and it probably wasn't your fault.

Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer — that it was better to leave well enough alone, to avoid unnecessary encounters with people you'd left behind, to not keep poking at that sore tooth with the tip of your tongue. Not because you didn't love them anymore, but because you did, and because that love was useless now, just another dull ache in your phantom limb.

I'm only human, she told herself. There's not enough room in my heart for everyone.

He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to learn the lesson that Sarah taught him everyday--that beauty was only a part of it, and not even the most important part, that there were transactions between people that occurred on some mysterious level beneath the skin, or maybe even beyond the body.