Quotes About Relationships

It takes a special kind of pathetic loser to help someone you hate just to make his girlfriend happy, I thought.

I'm glad you have Senia, Kiva." "I'm glad too," Kiva said. "Although that was fucking unexpected." "Love often is," Grayland said.

The sense you're where you're supposed to be, with someone you're supposed to be with.

No human is an island. They are rarely even peninsulas.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with," I said. "Don't ask me why. It just works that way.

What did you all name your BrainPals? Asshole, I said. Bitch, Jesse said. Dickward, said Thomas. Fuckhead, said Harry. Satan, said Maggie. Sweetie, said Susan. Apparantly, I'm the only one who likes my BrainPal.

Connection, he explained, was the essence of pop music, according to his boss, Jimmy Iovine: "Jimmy always says it's all about the connection between the artist and the fans," he says. "This whole business, it's just about that connection.

Core participants tend to focus on transactions rather than investing in the long-term effort to build sustainable, trust-based relationships on the edge.

No one will be able to effectively participate in relevant knowledge flows without possessing useful knowledge stocks of their own. People who reach out to connect with others to simply take knowledge will find that these interactions quickly dry up as others begin to realize they have little to gain from these connections. As in all relationships, reciprocity is essential. Knowledge stocks thus become both a means and an end to participation in knowledge flows.

Father once told me that would-be lovers were similar to mountains. Two peaks, wonderfully akin and compatible in every way, may rise to the clouds but never witness each other's majesty because of the space between them. Like a man and a woman from different cities, they would never find each other. Or, if the peaks were blessed, as my parents had been, they might be two mountains of the same range and could bask in each other's company forever.

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

A guy needs somebody?to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.

it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.

I think I love you, Cal. -Abra I'm not good. -Cal Because you're not good. -Abra

Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.

There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn't return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.

If you want to keep a friend, never test him.

Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me I was more alive than I have ever been, and not only when she was pleasant either. Even when we were fighting I was whole.

Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.

A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike. And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences.

My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby...I am very fortunate in having a wife who likes being a woman, which means that she likes men, not elderly babies.

If you are in love — that's a good thing — that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don't let anyone make it small or light to you. […] If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to. But when you grow up you take your place and you're your own size and shape. Things go out of you to others and come in from other people. It's worse, but it's much better too.