Quotes About Relationships

They both knew that jealousy could rise like a tide, erasing events that had been scratched into the shore of your memory.

It is also a terrifying prospect: that the relationships we use as cornerstones of our personalities are not given by default but are a choice... p 231

That…sucks." I shrug. "It is what it is," I tell her. "The point is, if someone abandons you, it may be less about you and more about them.

You can love a pet more than you love some people," I say suddenly, surprising even myself. Everyone turns, because unlike the others, I hardly ever draw attention to myself by volunteering information. "It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it's there.

Josie already knew the answer. This group of kids—they weren't her friends. Popular kids didn't really have friends; they had alliances. You were safe only as long as you hid your trust—at any moment someone might make you the laughingstock, because then they knew no one was laughing at them.

He did not have to read the careful number to know the weight of Emily's heart; he'd held it for years

Sometimes I think there's no such thing as falling in love. It's just the fear of losing someone.

makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.

Anna is thirteen. Anna lives with her mother. Anna's mother is opposing counsel. How can Anna possibly live in the same home and not be swayed by Sara Fitzgerald?

It seemed to Wren that having a mother had a lot less to do with a few sweaty hours of labor and delivery, and a lot more to do with whose face you always looked for in a crowd.

You trust someone who makes spaces for you in his or her life…so much so that if you leave, they will del the absence. You give someone your vulnerable, unshelled heart wrapped in a question: What will you do with it?

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone else suffer than it does to take the pain yourself?

Uomini. Non si può vivere senza di loro... e non li si può abbattere legalmente... ... Ho buttato fuori di casa mio marito otto anni fa, e al suo posto ho comprato un lama. La decisione migliore che abbia mai preso.

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them. There

We fall back into silence. I look around XO Café and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables where the diners are young and hip. The older couples, the ones sporting wedding bands that wink with their silverware, eat without the pepper of conversation. Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?

People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more." ? Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. 'Then why are you here?

We worked and we ate and we celebrated birthdays and gossiped and read and wrote and prayed and we woke up each morning to do it all over again.

But it feels like we are sitting on a tight bench of a bus with a stranger between us, one that neither of us is willing to admit to or mention, and so we find ourselves talking around him and through him and sneaking glances when the other one isn't looking. How am I supposed to think about Anna Fitzgerald when I'm wondering whether Julia has ever woken up in someone's arms and for just a moment, before the sleep cleared from her mind, thought maybe it was me?

People you love can surprise you every day. That maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable when we least expect it.

If you forgive people enough, you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not--squatter's rights of the heart. -James Hamilton

He presses himself so close to me that any hurt left on the surface between us spreads thin, becomes a binding instead of a boundary

You could lose track of someone when you blinked

if the only love you had ever known was conditional, so was the absence of it.