Quotes About Relationships

And it was easier to have an unrequited love than to get all fussed and dressed and go out on dates every Saturday with men she was never going to fall in love with. So she'd quit dating, quit dressing up—and on the whole she was happier than she'd been before.

Damn it, Mercy." He didn't like to swear in front of women. I always counted it a personal triumph when I could make him do it.

Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth.

But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them. And I didn't love Samuel the way a woman should love her mate, the way I loved Adam. Samuel didn't love me that way either. Close, but not quite. And except in horseshoes and hand grenades, close doesn't count.

Leslie absorbed that. "If that's so, I peg our Anna at sixteen and her husband at ten thousand and change.

You come home, Daddy," she told him. "I love my mother, but if I have to live with her for very long, one of us will commit a homicide. And you bring Mercy and the pip-squeak back.

Love means leaving yourself vulnerable, knowing that there is someone to catch you when you fall.

Anna was pretty sure no one else at the table believed the cold relationship Bran and Leah had was a good thing. It wasn't abusive - not quite. Not physically abusive, anyway. But Anna would have lasted a month, tops, in a relationship where her needs were met with attentive care - and not an ounce of affection.

Love is both useful and powerful -- but seldom convenient. ~ Asil

Marriage is not as necessary for survival of the species as it used to be, and it has suffered somewhat from the change.

Making him feel horrible isn't what you want." She paused, considered what she said, then modified it. "Unless it is useful for him to feel horrible, of course. Mostly, though, I've found that isn't productive. Men who are miserable can be unpredictable.

Love is both useful and powerful—but seldom convenient.

I told them,' he said in a clear, carrying voice, 'that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.

She needs feeding up. Leo never could take care of the gifts he was given.' 'He wasn't given Anna,' Charles said. 'He hunted her down.' Tag's face stilled. 'He Changed an Omega by force?

Take it from me, anyone who lives with you is occasionally going to wonder who your liver might taste, and not because they are hungry. 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.

Love, like any other living thing, needs to be fed. Only if you starve it will it die.

For a quiet man, Charles was very good at saying "I love you.

SILVERLESS, DE-MAGICKED, AND VOWING NEVER TO PLAY word one-upmanship—or even Scrabble for that matter—with either Adam or Asil (What exactly was a quicquidlibet, anyway?)

Healthy pain invites healing. Gabriel is a good boy; he'll be a good man. Not all relationships that end

I don't like it when I outweigh my men.

Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.

You mean he thinks I'm going to get MORE offers?" Kim said, appalled. "He doesn't seem to be the only one that thinks so." Mairelon said. "Aunt Agatha mentioned it to me yesterday afternoon. Is there anyone, or would you rather I turn the lot of them away?" Kim shook her head. "There isn't anyone." Except you.

Allowing anyone, even Mairelon, not only to come close to her, but to circle her waist with his arms brought back old fears, though she had to admit that the sensation was pleasurable on those rare occasions when she could relax enough to enjoy it.

And on top of everything, Mairelon hadn't even said she looked nice.