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Quotes About Relationships

Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.
~ Mae West
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
~ Mae West
Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.
~ Mae West
A me piacciono solo due tipi di uomini: gli stranieri e quelli del mio Paese.
~ Mae West
Gentlemen prefer blondes, but who says blondes prefer gentlemen?
~ Mae West
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing in life, really. And I think we are all striving for it in different ways. I also believe very, very strongly that everybody is the hero/heroine of his/her own life. I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters
~ Maeve Binchy
You can't marry an ungenerous man; there's no joy in his soul.
~ Maeve Binchy
Wasn't it hard that you did so much for children and loved them so deeply and they seemed so indifferent to you in return?
~ Maeve Binchy
And he said nothing. Just put his arms around her more closely as the whole heart clinic and their friends and relations danced to the music of "Hey Jude".
~ Maeve Binchy
Love isn't a straight line. It's a roller coaster ride.
~ Maeve Brennan
There's a thin line between love and hate, and it's easy to cross.
~ Maeve Brennan
Enough," she said, putting a finger on Guy's lips. He opened his mouth and bit it lightly, then began teasing the end of it with his tongue. "Stop it!" she exclaimed, pulling it out and wiping it on his shirt. "You are the limit, Guy Webber, do you know that?
~ Unknown
A terminal illness doesn't belong only to the one who is sick—it affects family members, friends, neighbors, coworkers. Not unlike a still pond disturbed by a falling stone, an impending death sends ripples through all the relationships in the life of the dying. Each person involved has his or her own set of issues, fears, and questions.
~ Unknown
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites instead it fragments.
~ Maggie Gallagher
Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.
~ Maggie Gyllenhaal
For Jane Austen, morality is not only a matter of personal responsibility between an individual and his conscience or his Maker; it is more social than that, it is a matter of how the conduct impinges on the lives of other people.
~ Unknown
To devote yourself to someone else's pussy can be a means of devoting yourself to your own.
~ Maggie Nelson
95. But please don't write again to tell me how you have woken up weeping. I already know how you are in love with your weeping.
~ Maggie Nelson
How people are often merciless on those they love the most
~ Maggie Nelson
I think you overestimate the maturity of adults, he wrote me in his final letter, a letter he sent only after I'd broken down and written him first, after a year of silence.
~ Maggie Nelson
I don't ever want to make the mistake of needing him as much as or more than he needs me. But there's no denying that sometimes, when we sleep together in the dark cavern of the bottom bunk, his big brother thrashing around on top, the white noise machine grinding out its fake rain, the green digital clock announcing every hour, Iggy's small body holds mine.
~ Maggie Nelson
Psychology forces everything we call love into the pathological or the delusional or the biologically explicable, that if that I was feeling wasn't love then I am forced to admit that I don't know what love is, or, more simply, that I loved a bad man.
~ Maggie Nelson
She is trying to get me to see that although I thought I loved this man very completely for exactly who he was, I was in fact blind to the man he actually was, or is.
~ Maggie Nelson
I am getting the bad feeling that my friends are growing tired of me. I am growing tired of me, too.
~ Maggie Nelson