Quotes About Relationships

Jason had tried to reach their father through the construction company that employed him, but he'd learned nothing concrete.

my mother telling me never to go to bed without resolving an argument.

The pastor made a funny comment. He said that when he taught marriage classes most of those attending took naps. It was the divorce classes where everyone took notes.

Still, I remained curious. Abby Kincaid had flown in from Florida, which was about as far away from Cedar Cove as a person could get while remaining in the continental United States. She appeared to be happy for her brother and his bride, but she didn't seem pleased to be in town. She'd mentioned that it'd been over ten years since she was last in Cedar Cove, but surely there were school friends she'd want to see.

Husbands and wives

She'd allowed her sister to steal her joy.

Men are highly attracted to smiles. That includes your husband.

No man has ever crawled out from under his wife's criticism to be a better man—no matter how justified her condemnation.

Women who can't be close to their husbands have a propensity to develop a self-absorbing, spiritual intimacy with spiritual leaders—be they men or women.

He practices his faults, and you practice your bitterness. You are both practicing divorce.

Just remember, you are fighting a woman who is in the dime-a-dozen class. They are everywhere, ready to steal away the heart of the man who feels uncared for and unappreciated. The tool of your warfare is your loving, kind, delightful, radiant, adoring self.

The nature of love is about paying attention to the people who matter, about still giving when you are too tired to give. Be a mother who listens, a father who cuddles, a friend who calls back, a helping neighbor, a loving child.

At the end, in Harry's handiwork, there's nothing sentimental about love, no sunlit clouds and glory notes – it's a substantial, earthbound connection, grounded in effort, kindness and decency. Learning to love, Harry liked to say, is really about learning to live. Perhaps everyday affection seems a small facet of love. Perhaps, though, it is the modest, steady responses that see us through day after day, that stretch into a life of close and loving relationships.

You're afraid to let a man close for fear he'll uncover the wanton [bitch] side of you that you're so ashamed of.

All things being equal, people will buy from a friend. All things being not quite so equal, people will still buy from a friend.

Men may be the head of the house, but the women are the neck, and they can turn the head any way they want.

Albert Einstein put it differently: "Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed." Smart guy.

You have to love men a lot," she once wrote. "A lot, a lot. You have to love men a lot. Otherwise they are simply unbearable.

Sergeant Jack Riley and his wife. They were closer to

The naysayer has a place in your life, but if that is someone that you are considering to be your friend, do they truly add value in your life?

He might be starving, but he ate when the meal was ready, and with her, not while she was still draining the pasta.

When parents die, the dream dies, too—the dream that they will see you for who you really are (and, I suppose, the dream that they will ever be the parents you wish for).

Now he wasn't going to be here to love me or to talk to me. To have conversations with me about everything. Stuff. What was on his mind.

A man doesn't recognize his own wife. Because she's happy.