Quotes About Relationships

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.

What binds me to the trees is something they know how to do and I don't. All that binds the trees to me is my dogs ,who love me more tonight than other nights. For their hunger is more beautiful when they are hungry from the trees than hungry from me.

Love creates lovers, not lovers love.

Divorce is the future tense of marriage.

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children.

Some people are not worth it, but your fear of loosing them sometimes is bigger than your realization.

What life is there, what delight, without golden Aphrodite?

The people you loved, they were always there with you, she had learned.

He walked until he couldn't hear her scream his name anymore. He walked rigidly and calmly, not believing that a person you loved - yes he has loved her - could end up being someone you never knew.

People are awful. Drink some beer.

She wished she had something like baseball that she could talk about with her daughter—a safe subject they could visit without subtext or aggression.

Listen, if people don't like you, it's not always your fault. My brother told me that.

Girls think they'll have the upper hand because these kinds of men seem so pliable, when in fact, the girls are the ones who end up paying bitterly for their mistakes. The Lord forgives, but the world does not forgive.

Maybe my life can be significant—not on a grand scale like my brother, but to a few people

The penalties incurred for the mistakes you made had to be paid out in full to the members of your family

It was much smaller than her own, but everyone seemed closer, as if each member were organically attached to one seamless body, whereas her enormous extended family felt like cheerfully mismatched Lego bricks in a large bucket.

Life is filled with many complicated tasks, and no one, Casey, no one can do things alone. It's very slow going if you choose that path.

Her older sister used to say that men hated pity; rather, they wanted sympathy and admiration—not an easy combination.

Her mother was unrecognizable to her; it would have been easy to say that the illness had changed her, but it wasn't so simple, was it? Illness and dying had revealed her mother's truer thoughts, the ones her mother had been protecting from her.

He could never replace her. And he felt he had done her a great injustice by not having told her this.

Sunja wanted her sister-in-law to make Changho wait, but it wouldn't have been Kyunghee if she had made him do so. Changho had loved someone who would not betray her husband, and perhaps that was why he had loved her.