Quotes About Relationships

There is nothing between us now but respect, and respect has room for secrets, I think—but not for lies.

about things. And once I got old enough for such a thing to be a possibility, he told me that a man must be responsible for any seed he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman

But mad passion wasn't a necessary prerequisite for tenderness or consideration, was it?

It occurred to me—belatedly, as so many things did these days—that John's intimate memories belonged to him, as well. "I didn't mean to pry," I said apologetically. He smiled faintly, but with real humor. "I am flattered, madam, that you should entertain an interest in me. I know many more Ã¢â'¬Â¦ conventional marriages in which the partners remain by preference in complete ignorance of each other's thoughts and histories.

I assure you, Mother," he said dryly, "you are undoubtedly the most interesting woman I've ever met." She snorted briefly and gave him a direct look. "I suppose that's why you haven't yet married, is it?" "I didn't think a wife needed to be interesting," he replied, with some honesty. "Most of the ones I know certainly aren't.

WHY DID YE never tell me that Frank Randall looked like Black Jack?

Sassenach I might be to him, but not English.

And I—so proud of self-sufficiency at one time—could not bear the thought of loneliness again.

in her voice that

And here I thought I married you because ye had a fair face and a fine fat arse.

gossip, daily medical clinics, and

Aye, well, my mother was their sister, and there were two more sisters, besides. My Auntie Janet is dead, like my mother, but my Auntie Jocasta married a cousin of Rupert's, and lives up near the edge of Loch Eilean Mhor. Auntie Janet had six children, four boys and two girls, Auntie Jocasta had three, all girls, Dougal's got the four girls, Callum has little Hamish only, and my parents had me and my sister, who's named for my Auntie Janet, but we called her Jenny always.

But how shall I tell ye all these things," he said, the line of his mouth twisting. "And then say to you—it is only you I have ever loved? How should you believe me?

How little you know of women, my love," I said.

Her name was Geneva Dunsany," Grey said. "My wife's sister.

Your wife?" I said, goggling at him. He flushed deeply and looked away. If I had been in any doubt about the nature of the look I had seen him give Jamie, I wasn't any longer.

Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are—or for not coming back.

I'm married. I have a daughter, so I put aside time in the day to spend with them.

We push experience aside and forget about people far too quickly.

I love being a husband and a father. That aspect of my life has been a joy.

Life is all about balance. My work is very important to me, but so are my relationships. I make time for that aspect of my life, and it makes me happy having balance in my life.

It's nice to have someone to come home to and get the honest truth about all aspects of life.

Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It's a process.

I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.