Quotes About Relationships

nfatuation lasts anywhere from six months to three years, and you can't know you've found the right person until you're worked your way through it.

She gave Rachel her usual obsessively loving smile, including Phin in it, too, as her future son-in-law. Such a nice couple , her smile said. What lovely grandchildren they'll give me. And they'll live right next door. Phin's answering smile said, Not a chance in hell , while Rachel gazed at Justice and Mercy, pretending she'd never heard of pornography or sex, or Phin, for that matter.

Mason was leaving her for a fifty-four-year-old woman who didn't moisturize

You're planning on being disappointed, you'd be disappointed if you weren't disappointed, your whole world view depends on men disappointing you. Well, that's just cowardly.

Luke is the father of the heart, Richard is the father of the mind, and Christopher is the father of the body.

At eleven, Kate woke Jake up when she went searching in the cooler for juice. You know, you used to be peaceful, he grumbled. I can't believe you were ever married. Kate said, as she cracked the can open. What did you do, make her stand in the corner all the time?

Does it ever occur to you not to sleep with women? No, Riley said.

Jake ignored him and went on. "If I ever do hook up with anybody again - and I sincerely doubt that I will, so wipe that hopeful look off your face - it will be with someone who thinks that being with somebody who mows lawns is her idea of heaven on earth and who will do exactly what I tell her to do and love it. I think Donna Reed is dead, Will said.

I'm fine, Kate said. In fact, since my last two dates were so awful, things can only get better. Bad deduction, Jessie said. If that were true, I'd be dating Harrison Ford by now.

The thing about women is that they got liberated too fast. They never learned to be straightforward about life because they had to sneak around for about a thousand years tricking men into doing things they wanted. So they manipulate you instead of telling you what they want, so you never know where the hell you are. And then they get mad at you and bitch.

I'm thirty-four. You don't look thirty-four. That's because I'm not married. Mae's smile felt as if it were set in concrete. Marriage tends to age a woman.

You know, I'm not even sure how we ended up living together. I am, Jake said, turning back to the lake. Sex. It's a powerful force, my boy, and women use it. Is that why you gave them up? Will asked, sympathetically. Did paranoia drive you to celibacy?

The thing about love is, you don't get to choose," Suze said. "You just wake up one day and there it is, sitting at the foot of the bed, going 'nyah, nyah, gotcha,' and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

The problem wasn't that Stephen was a fathead and Virginia was a gossip. It was that Stephen was a driven fathead with a large conservative following and Virginia talked to everyone.

Nitko nije savršen. Svi koji su ikada ikoga voljeli morali su prije?i preko ne?ega.

Don't let foolish assumptions about what's appropriate keep you from a good man. There are too few good men around to ignore one just because he's the perfect age for you.

Infatuation lasts anywhere from six months to three years, and you can't know you've found the right person until you've worked your way through it. You quit

I don't want to be alone anymore, but I don't want to go out and cold-bloodedly look for a man, either. - Kate Svenson

Nobody in my life has ever known me the way you do. Nobody in my life has ever made me feel as good as you do. You know me, you know everything about me, and when you leave me, you're going to be leaving the real me, the me nobody else has ever seen, that's who you're going to be rejecting.

Jennifer Crusie

Jennifer Crusie

Where were all the women gamblers? It wasn't as if being a woman wasn't a huge risk all by itself. Twenty-eight percent of female homicide victims were killed by husbands or lovers. Which, come to think of it, was probably why there weren't any women gamblers. Living with men was enough of a gamble.

Daisy knew about proportion from art class, but she knew about men from life.

Don't let foolish assumptions about what's appropriate keep you from a good man. There are too few good men around to ignore one just because he's the perfect age for you.