Quotes About Relationships

They agreed to go their separate ways on Sundays and had no idea what would happen when children entered the picture.

It wasn't a romance; they were too young for that. Theo did not know of a single thirteen-year-old boy in his class who admitted to having a girlfriend.

Mary of Guise, herself barely a year older than Lennox and still one of the most beautiful women in Scotland

Philip II had come to resent the fact that his wife was eleven years older than he was.

A seismic shift was about to occur, one that discounted her kinship bonds to Elizabeth

she was distraught to realize soon after their marriage that he did not really love her.

Mary was betrayed by her own family, who failed to give her the benefit of the doubt.

The wooing of those days was prompt and practical. There was no time for the gradual approaches of an idler and more conventional age. It is related of one Stout, one of the legendary Nimrods of Illinois, who was well and frequently married, that he had one unfailing formula of courtship. He always promised the ladies whose hearts he was besieging that they should live in the timber where they could pick up their own firewood.

Single people who don't get pets in their twenties have to do other things to pretend they are grown-ups, like get married.

cat's feelings, and neither do you. It is not your pet anymore. It is an asshole who lives with you.

the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.

All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.

when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.

In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore.

She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at some appointed, prearranged time they seemed to stop the flow of affection and being the expectations - as if, for a brief phrase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations.

It's natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you can't interfere with people you love anymore than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know.

The hardest thing to accept about the passage of time is that the people who mattered most to us are all wrapped up in parenthesis

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.

Life is an X-rated soap opera.

Women know when men don't desire them: ghosts and witches, deities and demons, angels of death—even virgins, even ordinary women. They always know; women can tell when you have stopped desiring them.

but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.

friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships.