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Quotes About Relationships

There's nothing to understand. When we really love someone, we've got to accept their role in the mystery. And that's why we love them.
~ Patrick Modiano
Is there any way we can get society right if we don't first get the church right? If that is true, then is there any way we can get the church right if we don't first get families right? If that is true, is there any way we can get families right, if we don't first get marriages right? And if that is true, is there any way we can get marriages right if we don't get men right?
~ Unknown
I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
~ Patrick Murray
Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
~ Patrick Ness
We share out craziness, our neuroses, our little bit of screwed-up-ness that comes from our family. We share it. And it feels like love.
~ Patrick Ness
Viola?" he says. And I turn to look at him - And when I do, I can hear everything he's thinking. Everything. Clearer than before, clearer than seems possible - And I'm not even sure I'm supposed to, but I look him in the eyes and I see it - In the middle of everything he's feeling - Even after we fought - Even after I doubted him - Even after I hurt him - I see how much he loves me.
~ Patrick Ness
You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.
~ Patrick Ness
Because even the one you hate leaves an absence when they go.
~ Patrick Ness
It was so much easier to be loved than to have to do any of the desperate work of loving.
~ Patrick Ness
Because humans are complicated beasts," the monster said.
~ Patrick Ness
Sizewise, she's always been just smaller than me. But I think of her and I feel like she's as big as the world.
~ Patrick Ness
No," Seth says, firmly, "what I've learned is that there actually is more. There's you guys. You guys are my more.
~ Patrick Ness
You end up hating so many people that without even noticing, you start to hate everyone. Including yourself. But that's the trick, you see? The trick that makes everything survivable. You've got to love somebody.
~ Patrick Ness
But when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.
~ Patrick Ness
Maybe there didn't have to be any other reasons. Maybe love made you stupid. Maybe loneliness did.
~ Patrick Ness
His grandma wouldn't be here when his father arrived. Which suited everyone.
~ Patrick Ness
I don't believe in guardian angels, just people who are there for you and people who aren't.
~ Patrick Ness
And by being possessed, you possess, because that's how love works.
~ Patrick Ness
Say you were standing on a hilltop with someone who had no Noise. Would it be like you were alone there? How would you share it? Would you want to? I mean, here we are, the girl and I, heading outta danger and into the unknown and there's no Noise overlapping us, nothing to tell us what the other's thinking. Is that how it's sposed to be?
~ Patrick Ness
She's always saying that being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day." She catches my eye. "Which is something I believe, too.
~ Patrick Ness
The future of fiction? he said. Maybe, she said. Will it have room for, you know, love & stuff? he said. Always, she said. OK then, he said.
~ Patrick Ness
Men and their Noise. I don't know how they do it, how they stand each other
~ Patrick Ness
That was Gudmund's biggest fault. That he couldn't be anyone's everything. But that he'd try anyway.
~ Patrick Ness
Es mucho mas fácil ser objeto de amor que tener que llevar a cabo la complicada tarea de amar.
~ Patrick Ness