Quotes About Relationships

Boys liked it when you were starving, like you had starved yourself for them.

I wanted to be like my sister, who made friends and mistakes easily. It was like she'd been born knowing how to live.

Jessamy stayed behind, angry that Alistair seemed not to understand how important it was to her to have their own home. For years they had had to meet in secret until her divorce came through from Fabian Montague, her former husband. These were years during which Romaine had known Alistair as her uncle, while she was really his child. Why could he not understand her need for them to be in their own home, not in a busy dispensary-cum-hospital, where there would be sick and dying people?

One man got so mean and nasty whenever he couldn't play with Maureen's titties that he soiled himself on purpose so she would have to clean his butt and the rest of his private parts. Each time she had to do that, he displayed an erection that would put a horny frat boy to shame.

Blondeen was preparing to kill me and Jessie. She had been bad-mouthing us all over town and harassing us whenever we bumped into her in public ever since me and Jessie got together.

Grow up, Brett baby, I would share a lot of things with a lot of people, money, clothes, bed and board, even my last crust I'd be willing to share, but one thing I won't share is a man. You'd better believe it.

Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.

If you know about yourself, presumably you know about at least one other person.

I don't know what more there is to say, except this: that since one can't refuse to know oneself, and it must have happened eventually, I would rather it was through you than anyone else.

I know what you feel like anyone else. It's people that matter. If not, what are you worrying about. What's Madge got that you can't have for a bob against the railings? You care about someone and they let you down. Where's the difference?

Se preguntó por qué la gente a quien uno tenía un afecto más inocente era la que con tanta frecuencia exigía de uno el más atroz engaño.

As i was beginning to understand, this kind of love was foreign ground to him. I may add that he never did, as far as I know, accept a suitor.... Sometimes indeed I asked myself whether he lacked the capacity for loving men at all; but I liked him too well to offend him by such a question.

when you feel less superior it seems you feel more lonely.

True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

People, the people we really love, where did they come from? What did we do to deserve them?

We are all one question and the best answer seems to be love--a connection between things.

It's easy to love! Kattie once said to him. It's the courage to be loved that is so difficult.

Nancy: sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity. Decca: sisters are life's cruel adversity. The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.

Our children are not going to be just our children-they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.

I smiled, knowing that Elizabeth, even in the worst of her humours, was far better suited to my own disposition. She would scold me, quarrel with me, torment me, tease me and laugh at me as often as may be. I was the happiest man in the world.