Quotes About Relationships

Like she said, love wasn't a switch that could be turned off. It was more like a battery, had to run until there was no more energy left.

Ownership, even in love, is an illusion. No woman owned any man and no man owned any woman.

We all give up part of ourselves to be with anyone. Relationships change our trajectories.

But that's not the way love goes. You show the good, disguise the bad.

I told Chiquita if a man hadn't made a date with her for a Saturday night before Saturday night, he didn't want to be bothered with her on a Saturday night.

He was old enough to know you can't make people love you. But I suppose when you're wounded, logic ain't logical.

A man knows if he loves a woman in three months, if not three days, but what he desires in three hours, if that is all he desires, he should never get from you in three hundred years.

I read this book, it said a woman should think of her virginity like it's a window. And every time you sleep with a guy, it's like letting him put his fingerprints on your window. Staining your glass.

I heard you on the phone with her. I happened to be in your arms, and you happened to be inside of me, balls deep from what I remember, so I felt the difference, felt what you felt for her, heard how your voice changed when you talked to her.

A woman can plan. A woman thinks she needs a man for nothing in this world but soon realizes she is wrong. The same way every black- owned business has to acquire goods from a white distributor, women have to do business with men, be it professional or personal, to achieve too many of our goals.

All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt.

When a man really loves a woman, her secrets don't matter. He knows she's a liar and lives with it. His choice. In his silence he was the protector of her secrets. He maintained her lie out of loyalty, did that to prove his love. Loved her. Pi Suleman

The weight of love. For some a feather. Pi Suleman

Falling in love is easy. Being in love sucks.

He . . . took his wedding ring off, as if he had meant to do it while I showered, then put it on the nightstand, as if that was all it took for a married man to become unmarried . . .

Today, more than 50 percent of American adults are single, and 31 million—roughly one out of every seven adults—live alone.

The four countries with the highest rates of living alone are Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark, where roughly 40 to 45 percent of all households have just one person. By investing in each other's social welfare and affirming their

Benjamin, we're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

The women did not express themselves with their own men, the vanquished, but gave themselves at once to the victors, whatever their nationality, no matter what they had done . . .

Innovation user and innovation manufacturer are the two general functional relationships between innovator and innovation. Users are unique in that they alone benefit directly from innovations. All others (here lumped under

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.

You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty.

Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener.