Quotes About Relationships

it broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?

Every time I left our apartment to go searching for the lock, I became a little lighter, because I was getting closer to Dad. But I also became a little heavier, because I was getting farther from Mom.

In familia mea, tata este campion mondial la inchis discutii.

I'm sure people tell you this constantly, but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary, there would be a picture of you. She cracked up a bit and said, People never tell me that. I bet they do. She cracked up a bit more. They don't. Then you hang out with the wrong people. You might be right about that. Because you're incredibly beautiful.

Did she feel pity for me, did she want me to suffer? The next morning she led me to the coat closet, which faces the living room, she went in with me, we were in there all day, although she knew he wouldn't come until the afternoon, it was too small, we needed more space between us, we needed Nothing Places, she said "This is what it's felt like, except you weren't here." We looked at each other in silence for hours.

I parenti sono le persone con cui mai bisogna avere vergogna. Sbagli, I parenti sono le persone che ti fanno sentire la vergogna quando te lo meriti.

I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don't know very much about the birds and the bees.

Zij sprak openhartig over de mishandelingen door haar vader, en liet hem de beurse plekken zien die zelfs een huid niet kan vertonen.

The longer your mother and I lived together, the more we took each other's assumptions for granted, the less was said, the more misunderstood.

Everything she did reminded me of someone else.

My family cares very much about caring for him, but not enough to actually care.

When we lift our forks, we hang our hats somewhere. We set ourselves in one relationship or another to farmed animals, farmworkers, national economies, and global markets. Not making a decision - eating like everyone else - is to make the easiest decision, a decision that is increasingly problematic.

Compounding Julia's irritation was the fact that Mark and Jennifer were the parents of one of Sam's friends, and thought of Jacob and Julia as their friends, and wanted to have a coffee after to "catch up." Julia liked them and, insofar as she could muster enthusiasm for extrafamilial relations, considered them friends. But she couldn't muster much. At least not until she could catch up with herself.

Hilarious! he said. It is! I never heard from her again! Oh, well! So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

It was the part when you said that you do not know anybody, and how that encompasses even you.

and that's only because I'm older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

Un giorno farai per me cose che hai in odio. E' questo che vuol dire essere una famiglia.

What Jacob really thought: his father was an ignorant, narcissistic, self-righteous pig, too anal-retentive and pussy-whipped to grasp the extreme reaches of his hypocrisy, emotional impotence, and mental infancy. "So we're in agreement, then?" "No." "So we're agreed?" "No." "I'm glad you agree with me." But there were arguments for forgiving him, too. There were. Good ones. Beautiful intentions. Wounds.

What we don't wrestle we let go of. Love isn't the absence of struggle. Love is struggle.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

I heartily hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, ans so forth.

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

So, naturalists observe, a flea hath smaller fleas that on him prey; and these have smaller still to bite 'em; and so proceed ad infinitum.

nas relações vulgares da vida, parecem estúpidos, mazombos, enfadonhos, malcriados.