Quotes About Relationships

The sense of being at home in the world through social connection with others is a deep and pervasive Stoic theme. Stoicism, whether ancient or modern, sees social supports and not just inner strength as critical to how we surmount rather than succumb to adversity.

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

To S.H. & M.H.: Rot. E.H.

Sometimes I meet someone, he rubs me the wrong way. Your mother meets the same person, she thinks he's peachy keen.

This thing she did, her empathy and concern, turned out to have the unfortunate consequence of driving people away.

absolutely did not. "Door stays open," she

Men did not want to get caught, but this fear wasn't there for the right reasons. They didn't want their wives to discover they were having an affair because they would make it harder for them to get away with it the next time.

As she watched, she realized a kind of force field kept her parents together so that even as they fought, they were two halves of a whole. They were joined not only by the laws of marriage and the passage of time and the parenting of a child but by an invisible yet unbreakable bond that held them together even as they struggled to be apart.

distinct. Marriage was like this, she mused, an arabesque coupling, pulling two people into the heart of intimacy and back out again to face the world alone.

question. "I don't know. I like Boston. And I like being close to my mom." "And your sisters." Arden hesitated. This was officially a first date

How odd it was, Eleanor thought, to have grown children who've become people you don't really know.

But I kind of think people marry the wrong people to get the right children.

Perhaps every family is odd.

This sister thing, Marina thought, is as complicated and incomprehensible as particle physics.

And finally, most important, that I could trust men, to a certain extent, because of my power, but never females: females betrayed, smiled and lied and conned and betrayed worse than any man. I

Trevor was young, at least five years younger than she was. Between an older man and a younger woman, this would seem like nothing, but it was different this way around. She didn't kid herself. She knew what men were like. They'd go to bed with almost anyone female.

It's funny, but if I had to say whom I'm closer to, who knows me better, I'd have a hard time choosing between my husband and my best friend.

How odd it was, Eleanor thought, to have grown children who've become people you don't really know. Or maybe it was this way only in her family.

Our axles don't match but our wheels are turning.

I have particularly acute hearing, but Gran had obviously forgotten this fact.

needed comforting after discovering my boyfriend of two years, Todd, had stuck his salami in someone else's sandwich. I referred to him now as my ex-boyfriend 'The Toad.

The events we live through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world who mean you harm. And sometimes, they're people you say they love you.

The events we live through taught me to be sure of nother about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world who mean you harm. And sometimes, they're people you say they love you.

Georgie) Why is it that you always want to run after the one that goes off in a huff, and push away the one who is clinging to you?