Quotes About Relationships

He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He'd discovered that he had never been brave before—just indifferent. She had taught him that to be brave, you have to fear losing something.

Now this little gem"— Izzy's mother pulled out yet another bottle—"this is one of my favorites, guaranteed to improve your love life or your money back. Does your husband ever have trouble keeping up?" She held up a finger, then curled it limply downward as her eyebrows arched up. The silence from upstairs was suddenly deafening.

But that is the dual gift of love, isn't it? The joy of greeting and the sorrow of good-bye.

Don't fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don't need to swallow you whole, I don't need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you're there.

Love is not necessary for sex.

But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.

Stay out of this," she (Christy) snapped at me, wiping futilely at her cheeks. "This isn't your business." "When you blamed Adam, whose only fault that I can see is that he has poor taste in wives, you made it my business," I told her. Honey cleared her throat. "You do know you are one of his wives, right?" I raised an eyebrow. "Happily, he doesn't know how bad off he is with me—and I intend that he never will.

You play games with people's lives.(...) You forget that they are fragile.

If she tried anything, she would be sorry. Adam was mine. She had thrown him away, thrown Jesse away—and I had snatched them up. Finders keepers.

It comes with being a teenager—you inspire violence in the hearts of those who love you. It mostly goes away when you hit twenty.

Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.

I don't have many friends," I said. "Not 'come over and eat popcorn and watch a stupid movie' friends. You and Warren are sort of it." I don't have many girlfriends. My work isn't conducive to meeting other women. "Pretty sad," Kyle commented. Then he said, "You and Warren are the only people I eat popcorn with, too.

She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy.

You cannot look at a person, and say, 'If I could change this or that, if I could pick what I want and discard other things, I could love this one.' Such a love is pale and weak—and doomed to failure.

People who stand in the way of my mate's ability to get herself out of trouble often feel like they were hit by buses. I think this might be the first time it is literally true, though.

Love," he said, "is always a risk, isn't it? I've always thought that there were no certainties in life, but I was wrong. Love is a certainty. And love always gives more than it takes.

Most of the pack would rather have Darryl mad at them than Auriele.

It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares.

And that, children, is why ultimatums are a bad idea, said a memory speaking in the Marrok's voice.

My mother raised her eyebrow, and murmured, "And to think I was always worried that you didn't have any friends. I suppose I should have been counting my blessings.

There are some things that honest, honorable people don't do to the people they love. They don't propose marriage on TV. They don't bring home small cuddly animals without checking with their spouses first. And they don't tell their ex-husband they love him in front of a crowd that includes their daughter and his current wife right before he goes off to almost certain death. It didn't help that most of us could tell that she wasn't lying.

I couldn't stay in that room with both men one more minute... Even a human woman could have drowned in the testosterone in the air, it was so strong.

People I cared about could hurt my feels, but almost complete strangers? I could care less what they thought.

There is something about having someone take care of you, even when you don't need it - maybe especially when you don't need it.