Quotes About Relationships

there's a limit to enduring admiration being a substitute for love.

We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly-as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth-the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.

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

people can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.

There's nothing so confusing as finding out that you don't know someone you thought you knew.

It is simply amazing, at that age, when you're thirteen or fourteen, how you can take being loved for granted, how (even when you are wanted) you can feel utterly alone.

Small towns may revile you, but they have to keep you-they can't turn you away.

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.

Well, you finally got me, Helen had whispered to him, tearfully, but Garp had sprawled there, on his back on the wrestling mat, wondering who had gotten whom.

There were those apres-sex moments when, in a half-asleep or forgetting that I was with a woman, I would reach out and touch her vagina- only to suddenly pull back my hand, as if surprised.

It's natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard. Because you often feel like interfering—you want to be the one who makes the plans. . . You can't protect people, kiddo, all you can do is love them.

Stewart, Jr. who was called Stewie Two, graduated from Steering before Garp was even of age to enter the school; Jenny treated Stewie Two twice for a sprained ankle and once for gonorrhea. He later went through Harvard Business School, a staph infection, and a divorce.

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

What would Miss Frost have thought of me? I wondered; I didn't mean my writing . What would she have thought of my relationships with men and women? Had I ever protected anyone? For whom had I truly been worthwhile?

Fucking men.

Love also floats. And, that being true, love probably resembles Sorrow in other ways.

As a fourteen-year-old, he'd not been old enough to have sympathy for her—for either the child or the adult that she was.

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other. That

We all go through a phase—it lasts a lifetime, for some of us—when we're embarrassed by our parents; we don't want them hanging around us because we're afraid they'll do or say something that will make us feel ashamed of them.

What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?

Reading good novels can make young readers seem more experienced about relationships than they are.

Don't forget: Miss Frost was an older woman, and that goes a long way with boys—even if the older woman has a penis!

Between men and women, as Jenny Fields once said, only death is shared equally.

for a brief phase, 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. When