Quotes About Relationships

So you know what mean when I say that I don't think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You're just pulled to that person like true north, whether it's good for you or bound to break your heart.

Let me guess, Seven said last night. The first was a rebound. The second was married. How'd you know? He laughed. Because you're a cliché.

They sat in the companionable awkwardness caused by knowing extremely private things about each other that had never been directly confided.

I had once left Coop because I wanted to see if I could be the best, if I could make my own way in the world. But living for months with the Fishers made me se the value of intrinsically knowing there was someone to help me up if I stumbled. -Ellie, Plain Truth

I am angry at myself, at the world, but because it is easier, I lash out at him.

But I love you, Trixie said. There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them. She couldn't blame Jason; she didn't like herself like this, either. But she couldn't go back to being the girl she'd been before she met him; that girl was gone. So where did that leave her?

When you let people into the inner sanctum of your life, you risk having them see the heart of you.

Most women like to have a few years to get to know themselves, before getting to know marriage and children." "But once you have a family, there's so much more you learn about yourself

Have you ever really held the hand of someone you love? Not just in passing, a loose link between you-but truly clasped, with the pulses of your wrists beating together and your fingers mapping the knuckles and nails like a cartographer learning a country by heart?

Corazon smiled at him. You know how your mother keeps her Christmas card list? How she sends to people who send her one, and that list gets longer and longer every year? - Yeah, Jack muttered. I have to lick the damn stamps. -Watch your mouth, Cora reprimanded. See love's like that. Once you give it, even by accident, you're on that list forever.

One of the first things Adam told me was that I was pretty, which should have been my first clue that he was a liar.

You could have been Bethany Matthews, Delia Hopkins, Cleopatra - it wouldn't matter. And if you'd grown up with a thousand lemon trees in the middle of the desert, with a cactus instead of a Christmas tree and a pet armadillo, well then, I would have gone to law school at Arizona State, I guess. I would have defended illegal aliens crossing the border. But we still would have wound up together, Dee. No matter what kind of life I had, you'd be at the end of it.

You don't make peace only with God. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.

Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have done both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.

like yours. That's because home isn't where you are. It's who you're with.

That's what I think love is, when your hindsight's twenty-twenty, and you still wouldn't change a thing.

I believe that there are five things we need to say to people we love before they die, and I give this advice to caregivers: I forgive you. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Goodbye. I tell them that they can interpret those prompts any way they like, and nothing will have been left unsaid.

Mistakes are memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.

Look at that," Michael said. "My daughter's an hour old and she's already sleeping with some guy.

I wonder if anyone works any harder at anything than kids do at being popular.

Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.

they accepted any baggage that came with you and made you believe you were more than you actually were

Here's what I hadn't realized : the mother you haven't seen for almost 36 years isn't your mother. She is a stranger. Sharing DNA does not make you fast friends. This was not a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.

I learned the hard way that you shouldn't stay with someone because of your past together—what matters more is if you want the same things in the future.