Quotes About Relationships

His mother was a reasonably nurturing person but did not protect and defend him from his father.

Marry her right away. Tomorrow, if you want. You don't know how much time you get with someone, so you might as well start right away.

I started playing that game I play when I'm feeling lonely, the one where I review all of my prior relationships, marveling that so many sweet, smart, pretty girls have come into my life and that I've found a way to fuck things up with every one of them.

While love is celebrated, we are assured that a satisfying sexual encounter does not require love. If the Shirelles tune were written today, the singer would likely have to lower the bar down to "Will You Respect Me Tomorrow"—if even that.

Now I'll deal with Derek on the ice and Valerie off. At least in the rink, I carry a stick and have pads and a helmet for protection. I'm pretty sure that Valerie's attacks will make me look forward to Derek's cheap shots against the boards.

Bad weather friends were as undependable as fair weather friends in a crisis, the relationship in both cases being dictated by conditions of fortune instead of mutual tastes.

Love, dear friends, begins with curiosity.

Friendship in youth represents sympathy without understanding; in age, understanding without sympathy.

Oh, of course, it was a sad role, the lover no longer loving. But once the perfunctory sympathy was given him the heart went outfully to oneself, the real victim, the unloved.

That's why I ca never be happy with simple, good people", she thought. "It isn't enough to be honest and good-to be happy they must pretend. They really must!

That's why I can never be happy with simple, good people", she thought. "It isn't enough to be honest and good-to be happy they must pretend. They really must!

This is what e-mail is: either a cowardly way for people to ask favors of you that they would never ask in person, or a way for people to pretend they are having a friendship with you when they really are not.

True Love Isn't Hearts & Flowers. It's Blood & Guts & Bouquets Of Barbed Wire

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.

You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved...well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were. That's what you've taught me, fur face,and because of you I'll never be the same.

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.

I never knew whether I was drawn to eccentric people or if they were drawn to me.

We hold each other hostage to our eccentricities." I smiled again, an unseen smile. "We're made for each other.

its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him

I am no good alone. I need bonds, vows real if unspoken, shared laughter, and people who depend on me as I depend on them.

If a girl wasn't loved a little bit, without the depth of affection that might at least be mistaken for love, she was being used, and no one was the better for being used

We hold each other hostage to our eccentricities.