Quotes About Relationships

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos—a cult of two with fallible gods.

They spend their whole lives yelling at the world and each other. They yell at their loved ones, they yell at their enemies, they yell at their dinner, they yell at the big bustling world.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding

Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.

No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.

Just know, my darling girl, that if I could, I would call you every day of your life just to say I love you with nothing else attached to those words. No criticism. No advice. No requests. Just to say I love you.

It begins to dawn on her that she is lackadaisical about other people. They are tremendously important to her for a time and then they are not. She begins to see her life in sections, as separate pockets of time and affiliation.

Much of what she found charming and refreshing about him at the outset of their relationship now bugged the hell out of her.

Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Familes are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole.

Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating.

Ordinary people, untwins, seek their soulmate, take lovers, marry. Tormented by their incompleteness they strive to be part of a pair.

There are few things that cannot be put right by love, and there is no shortage of that here.

My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them.

Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole.

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

So tell me about yourself. What are your favourite books? What do you dream about? Whom do you love?

Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating.

This might seem excessive; ten years of marriage is usually enough to cure marital affection

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories. So," she concluded, "everybody has a story. When are you going to tell me yours?" "I'm not.

She will not be clever, but still, I see no reason why she should not one day lead a satisfying life separately from her sister. Perhaps she might even marry. All men do not seek intelligence in a wife, and Emmeline is very affectionate.

Since she started dating "Uncle" Roger, she's often not returned home until late morning on weekends. During the week, she'll sometimes just call when she gets to work around 8:30. Today's Saturday, so I figure she'll show up in time for lunch. Hopefully, with some groceries.

Lack of respect could make you angry. Lack of trust could get you killed.

It's difficult to say just where a marriage goes wrong, because the accepted reason often isn't the real one.