Quotes About Relationships

Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. In the dramas, not Mensah's family.

I hate having emotions about real humans instead of fake ones, it just leads to stupid moments like this.

And if it was this hard with Ratthi and Pin-Lee (Gurathin had never liked me and it was mutual), what was it going to be like with Mensah, if I managed to get that far? I didn't know if I could trust them. I wanted to. But I want a lot of things—freedom, unlimited downloads, new episodes of Drama Sun Islands—most of which I wasn't going to get.

He was starting to realize that maybe he didn't actually know the difference between trusting people and just pretending to trust them while bracing for the betrayal.

You're all idiots," Stone said, gave Bramble a shove to the head, and walked out. Bramble slumped and sighed in relief. "Stone still loves us.

Fairly reasonable people often expected everyone they knew to be fairly reasonable too, and were shocked when this proved not to be the case.

said, "The humans think I'm an asshole, wait till they get to know you." I thought you weren't speaking to me.

my favorite human.

Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. In the dramas, not Mensah's family.

Moon had the feeling Stone was inadvertently teaching the kethel how to be sarcastic. That wasn't going to work out for anybody.

they still had to tell me about what had caused the latest fight. (I don't remember what it was, I deleted it from my memory as soon as I could get out of the room.)

Target Two accidentally (I'm guessing here; maybe they just didn't care for each other) stabbed Target One.

Oh, don't make me fight you with words, cousin. It will get out of hand, as once started I lose the will to stop.

I'd watched family dramas before, but I'd never spent much time around human families before coming to Preservation. (Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. In the dramas, not Mensah's family.)

It's so easy to go from love to hate. But from hate back to love, that's the hard part.

There will be another job, but you will never have another family. Someday you're going to be lying on your deathbed and you aren't going to be saying, "Gosh, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.

People so rarely talked about themselves accurately. They either made too much or too little out of everything. It seemed to Rose that you got to know people much more thoroughly by hearing what they thought and what they did, and then extrapolating the rest as a kind of interesting, intellectual puzzle. All you had to do was listen to the vehemence and passion with which a person talked about things other than himself or herself, and there the person was.

Reality, with all its attendant complexities--i.e., other people--was inescapable...

He had a real mother, and a stepfather named Bart who Martin called Fart but only with his brothers and James

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. —MARGARET MEAD

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Sex has become much more competitive, with the girls becoming sort of predators as well. It's ferocious.

The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact. Hard to love, when the loved one, and the lover, might at any instant become blood and flames, along with everybody else.

You use a different part of your heart with girls.