Quotes About Relationships

I've never understood why looking hot had to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to anticipation, to courtship, to true love? Can't a person look hot and not have it mean something? Call me an old-fashioned Naomi bitch, but I'm holding out for true love. Even if it's an unattainable fantasy

Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?

There is always something new to learn about the person you love.

And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.

People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.

Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

If other people see you differently, you'll end up seeing them differently, too.

Let's always love each other, and never be in love with each other.

He says presents aren't important, but I think they are - not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say I understand you.

I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I'm already too late.

Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.

You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.

only , adj . Thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me . And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you .

When I say, Be my lover , I don't mean, Let's have an affair . I don't mean, Sleep with me . I don't mean, Be my secret . I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you.

For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.

Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know exactly where you stand.

The world, right now, is only us.

Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.

It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close.

When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.

Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

These kinds of fights can never be won - even if you're the victor, you've hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.

Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I wrote Dear Sofia or Dear Boomer or Dear Lily's Great-Aunt at the top of this postcard, wouldn't that change the words that followed? Of course it would. But the question is: When I wrote Dear Lily, was that just a version of Dear Myself? I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too