Quotes About Relationships

If you're going to get a card for somebody you don't really care about, they should make cards that say that. "You're a friend of my wife's cousin–the hell with you." "We hardly know you. What did you expect, cash?"

Rose and Ash were the kind of sickeningly cute couple that made Gin want to puke, especially when they acted all weird, doing things they thought were hilarious, but were just stupid as far she was concerned. Gin didn't know why Rose embarrassed herself in public like that.

Gin was smart enough to know if she had limited the party to just her girlfriends, it would be a very small one: namely her and Sandy. It's not that the girls at school didn't like Gin. It was more like they tolerated her. Not that Gin wasted any energy trying to be friends.

Gin was always so calm around guys. Sandy wished some of that would rub off on her. Obviously, she didn't want all of Gin's habits to rub off, but a few of the useful ones might be nice.

Does everybody always have to be on the prowl for love?

Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.

The miracle," Claire said, "is that anybody stays together.

If you're going to fall for men, or boys, then deal with the fact that you're going to be an outcast. It's not for the faint of heart, it's not for anybody hoping to be liked or respected or accepted or any of that bullshit.

Romance always involved a bit of deceit.

Sometimes what you depend on is other people being even more wacked than you are.

Absolutely, love matters," she reiterated. "We forget that at our own risk.

Okay, he thinks, perhaps it's time for everybody to move on; nothing lasts forever, it's part of the physics of friendships, alliances, whatever it might be they perpetrated for a while among themselves.

Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?

A woman's thoughts are always weapons. And all men are monsters in their hearts.

The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide.

You seem to like everybody. It's unnatural. It's also unfortunate. You're going to waste so much time before you've worked out who the people are it's worth your while to know.

Love is a word for unfinished business, I think.

Love is an island in the setting sun

And I'm afraid that I'll be taken, abandoned, forsaken In her cold coffee eyes

What a beautiful inspirational model for how human beings might live: In a shared economy based not on greed but on nurturing relationships and mutual cooperation.

in order to be comfortable with other people, you have to be comfortable with yourself.

You can be with somebody and still feel alone.

One night on the road just after Alive! came out, a woman and I were lying under the sheets in a hotel bed. She turned to me, puzzled, and said, "My boyfriend told me you were gay." "Well, I guess that didn't work," I said. "Because it didn't keep you away.

targets of emotional blackmail may become guarded about certain subjects and stop sharing major parts of their lives,