Quotes About Relationships

you have to find that rare someone for whom you're not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction--not because you're who they need you to be, or who they want you to be...just because you're you.

Aku menyayangimu, kataku, suaraku terdengar hampa karena tangis. Aku sangat menyayangimu hingga aku tak tahu aku akan hidup dengan siapa jika kau tidak ada. Dan bahkan jika usahaku menghabiskan waktu seluruh hidupku, aku akan membuatmu paham kenapa hidupmu membuat perbedaan.

She watched Peter's face transform as she spoke, like the change of a season. Why hadn't she taken the time before, when she had it, to tell Peter that she understood?

I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed.

I think it's human nature that those of us who are married cannot rest easy until we find mates for our single friends.

the 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 of when we least expect it.

Memories aren't stored in the heart or hte head or even the soul, but in the spaces between any given two people.

In her experience, the moment you showed you were weak in front of someone, they'd use it against you.

Just because you leave someone doesn't mean you ever let them go.

Maybe however much you've loved someone, that's how much you can hate. It's like a pocket turned inside out. It stands to reason that the opposite should be true, too.

Sunnie. Sometimes you got to think about whether you want someone to be a piece of fabric that fits into your life or not. As you sew the strips in, they become a part of what you do, how you think, how you end up. Good or bad, that's something you can never rip out and remake.

Love's the strongest energy. Katie and I loved each other. We couldn't love each other in my world, and we couldn't love each other in her world. But all that love, all that energy, it had to go somewhere. It went into that baby. His voice broke. Even if we couldn't have each other, we would have both had him. -Adam, Plain Truth

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

love was an unstable reaction with a half-life of about eight months. Bullshit, I said, and accused him of wearing cultural blinders; thirty centuries of prewar society taught that love was one thing that could last to the grave and even beyond

Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.

She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.

The people with thriving careers and healthy personal relationships get the same amount of time each week as the burned-out professional who can't remember their last meaningful conversation with a family member.

Madeline decides Jonathan is an immature, selfish asshole and that she is never talking to him again.

That's love for you. When it's good, it's magic. When it isn't, it just pees all in your soup.

There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.

We need to be free if we are to love.

A relationship does not start the day two people meet; it starts in the childhood of each partner. For it is long before they meet that the template of their relationship is established.

This is the internal tragedy of love. If love is successful, if our love is returned and develops into a relationship, the person we are with must turn out to be other than we imagined them to be. Love craves closeness, and closeness always brings us face to face with something other than we expected.

One's relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one's sense of identity, it shapes one's attitude to other people, it connects and splits generations; money is the arena in which greed and generosity are played out, in which wisdom is exercised and folly committed. Freedom, desire, power, status, work, possession: these huge ideas that rule life are enacted, almost always, in and around money.