Quotes About Relationships

The people who know you well are the people who know your vulnerabilities.

lot of getting along with other people is more about making a decision that you want to get along and then doing whatever is necessary to keep the peace.

It's so messed up how little control we have over whether we want somebody.

I'm positive I wouldn't consider having sex with Guy if I hadn't already had sex beforehand. I always knew I wanted my first time to be with someone I loved and who loved me, which it was . . . but shouldn't I want that for every time? I disagree with what Amy said about how once you go all the way, you can't go back to "everything but." But now that I have done it, it doesn't seem nearly as big a deal to do it again.

Just because the sexes are equal doesn't mean that sex is.

It sucks enough when girlfriends break plans with each other for a boy, but at least that's not against the natural order of things, like when a boy blows off his girlfriend for friends. . . . Or maybe I've had it wrong all along. Since friendships usually outlast relationships, why shouldn't friends receive preferential treatment? Because you don't sleep with your friends!

It's sick how you can be intimate with someone one minute and then be furious with that same person the next.

Doing things for someone else is what I love most about relationships, even more than having stuff done for me.

In neuroscience, our textbook showed how the brain scans of people newly in love look a lot like the brain scans of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. In each case, your dopamine is suppressing your serotonin.

Back in high school, I never understood how Amy could enjoy getting with guys just for the short haul. In a way, though, making out like this is more enjoyable because there's no pressure for me to not do or say anything stupid. What's the worst that can happen if I do? So I'm freer to focus on what I'm feeling, not what he feels about me.

But recalling how my ex had nasty BO after track practice never made me feel better. It seemed disingenuous to hold things against him that before I readily accepted as the price of love.

There's nothing like feeling like sh_t to kill your libido.

When presented with a member of the opposite sex, some of us get numbers and some of us throw up.

just because someone is a great guy doesn't guarantee we'll make a great couple, no matter how much I work at it and want it.

But when I gave bl0w jobs to my ex, I secretly hated it. What's pleasant about sucking on a stiff, veiny appendage that spurts pee and sperm?

The other big con is whether having sex could cause me to more than just like like Guy. But that could happen even if we don't sleep together. You don't even need to date a boy to dream about marrying him.

I wonder how many more penises I'll have inside me in my lifetime.

Cuteness and kindness are often inversely proportional in people.

All I mean is that, hypothetically, why would we need to see anyone else? And as long as we're going out and happy, wouldn't marriage be the goal, even if it's a decade away? 'Cause if it's not, all this is pointless.

That's the thing about exes - for eternity you feel like rivals in a kind of happiness contest, and losing would be the epitome of tragedy.

That I don't feel upset by us really being over almost trivializes how special and intense our relationship once was.

In my experience all boys can be classified as either assholes or bores, unless they're both.

How is it that two people can be in the same relationship and still have completely different ideas of what's going on?

Does he try to have intercourse with you? Grandma! I gasp. Not that it's any of your business, but no! Good. Remember, no ring, no ring-a-ding-ding. Because once you spread your legs for him, do you know where he'll race once he's done? He'll race to another woman, that's where.