Quotes About Relationships

Virgil was a social guy. So social, he'd been married three times over a short space of years, until he finally gave it up. He didn't plan to resume until he'd grown old enough to distinguish love from infatuation.

Janey. A problem. He liked her, but only for a couple of hours at a time.

A cop and schoolteacher bar. The teachers drink like fish. The cops hit on the schoolteachers. One big happy family.

WILLIE PURDY DIDN'T want to have anything to do with Caralee, who'd been recovered from Marlys's quilting friend. Caralee and Jesse eventually moved up the highway to Des Moines, where Jesse got a good-paying job working for an old high-school buddy, selling Colorado marijuana to real estate agents, and started saving for a truck farm of his own. He stopped drinking.

at the end of a five-year round of silliness, decided he didn't want to be a four-time loser, so he stopped getting married

I've been told, by somebody who knows these things, that Don knows a lot about the, mmm, tactical maneuverings of the party, and everybody involved in these things.

We've traded quite a bit of information over the years," Means said. "I worked out of Mason City for six years, so we got to know each other. He's sort of a hound when it comes to women." "Not sort of," Lucas said. "He's the fuckin' Hound of the Baskervilles when it comes to women. Every time he gets around my daughter, I make sure I've got my gun.

Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills,'" Virgil said, quoting Napoleon Dynamite.

chair and read a story in a four-year-old Cosmo about how women can keep their men interested by learning the latest in blow-job techniques—the techniques themselves were described blow by blow, so to speak, by a panel of successful New York advertising and media women. I was not only convinced, I was supportive.

They were the kind of people whose unhappiness tended to become your unhappiness, to say nothing of your screaming agony.

No," she said. "I've always been Republican policy, he's always been Democratic operations. We've worked on opposing political campaigns, of course, and we sometimes go to the same parties. I've known him for years, but we've never been . . . intimate. I don't mean that just in a sexual way, either. I mean, we've never really shared confidences.

with The Joy of Sex, which he found under the bed—when

Don't discount that part of who he was just because you didn't know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss meaning something to someone, having that part of being human.

Wes is Wes," Alastair said. "One in every family. I love him, but I think of him as a sarcastic pet.

How much did you love her?" Jane asked. "Your wife. Kathy. When people are married for a long time, maybe they stay together out of habit." "Sometimes they do," I said. "But I loved her very much. All the time we were married. I love her now.

I don't think I like you," she said. "This has been a recurring theme in my life

Part of me was once someone you loved—she sent. I think that part of me wants to be loved by you again, and wants me to love you as well. I can't be her. I can just be me. But I think you could love me if you wanted to. I want you to. Come to me when you can. I'll be here.

I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last.

This is the same Lizzie Chao who I went to high school with," Hart said. "I believe so," Isabel said. "She's married," Hart said. "She's separated," Isabel said. "Which means she's married with an option to trade up," Catherine said.

It takes a certain kind of dog to willingly demote himself from alpha dog, and that dog was Carl. Holloway would have to speak to him about it, for what little good it would do, Carl being a dog and all.

But there are deals, and there are promises. A deal you can make with anyone. A promise is something you make with someone you trust.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

In the end I am who I am. I am what I have made myself and what has been made of me. Part of who I am is who you are too; I have given you me as well. I would take your name and hold it in me, and whisper my name in your ear.