Quotes About Relationships

On Betrayal ] ...The theme seems to be betrayal in relationships but in fact it is 'honesty' and how there are different gradations of honesty. Revealing the truth is not the only alternative to concealing it. There can be layers of carefully managed confession and revelation. Also the inaccuracy of memory itself can be a crucial factor in determining who knew what and when they knew it.

People will let you down. All the time they'll let you down. But you must never let them down.

I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.

True love doesn't happen right away it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

The second error is the assumption that business or the work environment is the only tribal affiliation people have. By sheer proximity, the workplace tribe may seem to dwarf all the others, but anyone who works at home will find they actually belong to four or five major tribes—starting with the family and extending outward to the neighborhood, the garden club, library volunteers, church, and the like.

Querido lector, querida lectora: todo matrimonio es un reality show, una prueba para los nervios y los pasados y las violencias, y un experimento cruel para que todos los demás, todos los testigos que miran de reojo, confirmen y sigan creyendo que el fracaso es el destino de los otros: "pobres…

Y cuando uno resulta ser el cliché del otro, el lugar común del otro, queridos lectores, está a punto de caer y seguir cayendo. Para usar otra idea manoseada hasta sacarle brillo: cuando alguien descubre que siempre prefiere pensar y llamar y oír a una misma persona, y que ha encontrado a alguien para desempolvar las historias que había dejado de contar y que su vida ha vuelto a ser un drama, está a punto de regresar a la zona de turbulencia

Yo voy a ser tu gran decepción y tú la mía porque vamos a representar allá adentro, acá adentro, a todos los que tienen la soberbia para emprender la tarea de convertir dos vidas en una

Tengo una versión oficial de esta parte de la historia que, sin embargo, cada vez se me parece más a la verdad: que todo hombre debe haberse divorciado al menos una vez antes de casarse de verdad

No vivía por nadie ni para nadie ni con nadie ni ante nadie ni desde nadie ni según nadie ni en nadie porque vivir en pareja no sólo era una farsa, sino un atajo a la doble personalidad

todo hombre debe haberse divorciado al menos una vez antes de casarse de verdad.

You told me that it would be better to find family among people who were good than to try and find good among my family.

You think there can be love without suffering? Having without losing?

As for Kirsten, every day made her more unhappy: she felt Jack blaming her for something but she didn't know what she'd done.

Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looking for relief from loneliness in friendship, we are only going to frustrate the friendship. Friendship, camaraderie, intimacy, all those things, and loneliness lived together in the same experience.

It took the hand of God almighty To part the waters and the sea But it only takes one little lie To separate you and me We are not as strong as we think we are.

Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents.

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

He had a nice little house of his own, a wife whom he loved dearly, and two children, named Janie and Bill.

God transforms and saves a people, not atomized individuals.

The love of God is far more important than any human love. Sexual fulfillment finds its place, at best, as a subsidiary good within this larger picture.

If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.

Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.

Can miles truly separate you from friends . . . If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?