Quotes About Relationships

Like most womanisers, he affected to like women, and yet he despised and hated them all. And

If one has never been in love before, then it is difficult to recognize the beast when it comes along.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

Recognizing the difference between power and love is difficult if we were raised in a home where power was disguised as love.

Since she has not been present in the culture, she has not been readily accessible to the conscious awareness of modern women. Without her, even the dynamic symbols of Virgin and Mother are distorted. The Crone is a woman is that part of her psyche that is not identified with any relationship nor confined by any bond. She infuses an intrinsic sense of self-worth, of autonomy, into the role of virgin and mother, and gives the woman strength to stand to her own creative experience.

When he looked up, he said, "Clare told me about Christmas." And I swear the boy's face began to shine. I recognized what I saw there: that a person's name could be infinitely precious, that just saying it could make you feel singled out for glory.

I think love is an imperative. It obligates you.

Maybe she would remember who he was, and maybe she would come back.

That no matter what happens, loving someone to the best of your ability is the right thing to do. It's the only thing to do.

There were people who could live on their own and be happy, and then there were people like Pen and Margaret who needed the falling together, the daily work of giving and taking and talk and touch.

Honestly, the idea of wanting to spend time with people one did not love absolutely mystified her.

All the books she'd read had taught her nothing about what you do when your mother doesn't die but turns into someone you don't know, someone who doesn't take care of you anymore.

in my family I have comrades-hearty and loyal-when what I need are intimates, and I've never figured out how to get us all to make the switch. I've never found a way in.

If you never share the worst thing you've ever done with a single person, if you just carry it all by yourself, maybe it comes between you and everyone you meet, even if it's years later.

Maybe love comes in at the eyes, but not nearly as much as it comes in at the ears...

I know the pull of a dark, complicated man, the kind who has trouble loving anyone but you. But let me tell you this: the ones who look like home are home.

What she came to was that even if someone wasn't perfect or even especially good, you couldn't dismiss the love they felt. Love was always love; it had a rightness all its own, even if the person feeling the love was full of wrongness.

cuando le puse veneno en la tortilla, hasta me vino una alegría. Porque él no había tenido pena de mamá, cuando mamá se moría. Yo tampoco tuve pena de él. Ahora estamos todos a mano.

I know there are people who claim to enjoy dating, just like I know there are people who claim to enjoy a cold shower in the morning.

She believes her parents do not love her less, only that before, she had a child's notion of love that did not include the small treacheries of delusion and fear and shame.

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don't understand you at all stick around.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times...

how monstrous the people you loved could be.