Quotes About Relationships

I think when you get married, you should have to give gifts to your guests. I mean you found lifelong love, right? That means I deserve a blender far more than you do.

Never agree to marry a man because he has potential. Men are not houses, they do not make good fixer-uppers.

I always feared there was something about me. Maybe some inability to be loved that men could sense left over from being raised without family ties. Maybe loneliness is like a flaw men can spot and so shy away from.

For example, you may not think that acting irrationally would age you faster—but it could. Many studies have shown that the higher your emotional intelligence—your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself (and others) and to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships—the more likely you are to make better decisions, manage anxiety,1 and be more resilient to stress,2 all of which can help you age well.

Actually, many engaged couples give more thought and consideration to their one-day wedding experience than they do to what will happen in the many years following.

DO YOUR KIDS A FAVOR: LOVE YOUR SPOUSE

The only thing that a critical spirit, nagging, and negativity bring to a relationship is lack of intimacy. Many people were raised in homes where "shame-based parenting" was the rule rather than the exception. For many, there is a natural tendency to focus on the negative side of life, but that just doesn't work in relationships. There is incredible power in encouragement and affirmation. Mark Twain once said, "I can live two months on one good compliment.

Harry, Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, what you know about women, I could juggle.

The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.

Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts. Try and convict me if I'm a bad person for thinking so. I enjoy treating a woman like a lady, opening doors for her, paying for shared meals, giving flowers–all that sort of thing.

Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.

Never touch my brother on his fucking birthday.

A second later the door opened and Murphy glared up at me, blue eyes bright and cold. Get more away. I've been fighting this computer all day long. I swear, if you blow out my hard drive again, I'm taking it out of your ass. Why would your hard drive be in my ass? I said.

My brother threw up his hands. What does a woman need to do, Harry? Rip her clothes off, throw herself on top of you, and shimmy while screaming, 'Do me, baby!'? he shook his head. Sometimes you're a frigging idiot.

I blinked slowly at that notion. "A honeymoon free of your mother-in-law." "Worth more than gold or jewels," Hades said.

I thought I told you I didn't want to talk to you, Mr. Dresden. I like women who play hard to get.

Love you. That should have been simple enough to say. But the words stuck hard in my throat. I'd never said them to anyone I didn't lose

Dude, I said, making the word a disgusted sound. Single guys everywhere hate you. Starting with me.

Anger subsides. Love doesn't.

I do business with many people over the course of centuries, and treachery is a bad long-term investment. It simply isn't good business.

But I've noticed that people got the most irrational whenever family was around—while simultaneously losing their ability to distinguish reason from insanity. I call it familial dementia.

I mean, a lot of teenage guys fail in their first relationships. Not many of them murder the girl involved.

You can have everything in the world, but if you don't have love, none of it means crap. - Thomas Raith