Quotes About Relationships

I've always felt that a heart is meant to be given to only one person at a time. And, too, when it moves on, it moves on for good.

I confess I had a Child of Divorce Reunion Fantasy Number One Thousand, where I for a moment imagined my father finding out that Dino really was a killer woman and that my parents would have to get back together. I saw them running through a meadow, hand in hand. Okay, maybe not a meadow. But I saw me having only one Christmas and one phone number and only my father's shaved bristles in the bathroom sink.

Apologies were harder for the person getting one than the person giving one.

Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not being the one who risks the most.

Hey," I say back. It's a Hey of Almost Forgiveness. "I've got something I want to show you. Will you come somewhere with me?" Oh, all right. As long as it's anywhere. "Okay.

Secrets have a shelf life.

people bring their same selves to every situation, to all their relationships.

Some people get adoration mixed up with love, and [Juliet] was one of them.

first you're sure that love is larger than any obstacle, but then love comes to feel flimsy measured against what's been lost—family and friends and a history.

And right then I learn something very simple and fundamental about love. That it is there or it is not there. That some of our biggest troubles probably come when we try to convince ourselves it is there when it isn't, or that it isn't there when it is.

People plus people plus anger is how things can change.

One of the disappointing truths about divorce is that when you have children together, you are never free of the one you've tried so hard to leave. Never.

We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands. A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as feisty; we are thickly layered, page upon lying page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together.

but if love wasn't just yours first, it was like cutting up and handing out your birthday cake before you blew out the candles.

The first rule of marital success: Don't marry crazy and don't be crazy.

Although life and I are not always in love with each other, we do remain on close speaking terms.

Film brings people together.

Life can be like a roller coaster with its ups and downs. What matters is whether you are keeping your eyes open or closed during the ride and who is next to you.

Loneliness is my worst enemy, but in the end he's usually my only real friend.

I had lots of good intentions but I wasted them on people who didn't deserve them...

Everything is connected to everything else, and nothing is without consequence

If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you!

There is far, far more to being human than any of us can become on our own.

If you terminate a person from your life who is very toxic towards your reputation, you can actually lead yourself pertaining a career that you desire without any interference.