Quotes About Relationships

The central truth that serves as the platform for Christian marriage — and for all Christian relationships — is that in Christ we are at every moment eternally loved and genuinely significant.

People experience the life-changing force of healing relationships when something powerful comes out of one and touches something good in another.

Everyone is related, and everything is connected.

Nora Dunn When faced with no real friends, she went out into the world and made some, and to watch her try to create a life with meaning was touching.

And every faggot couple I know is deep into friendship and deep into fucking with everyone else but each other and any minute any bump appears in their commitment to infinitesimally obstruct their view, out they zip like petulant kids to suck someone else's lollipop instead of trying to work things out, instead of trying not to hide, and…unh…why do faggots have to fuck so fucking much?!

All I want is someone who reads books, loves his work, and me, too, of course, and who doesn't take drugs, and isn't on unemployment.

I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.

The smartest man alive can't learn much about a woman in two weeks.

I don't know why you would even want to stay with me, I said. T.R. looked stunned for a second and then whipped her elbow into my side as hard as she could--months later it was determined that the jab cracked a rib. Oh, get fucked! she said, jumping up. No wonder you don't have no girlfriend if you don't have no more feelings than to say a horrible thing like that. All I want to do is love you. Ain't you even gonna let me?

figure the reason you don't have much to say is you probably never met a man who liked to hear a woman talk.

She had always loved to tease and considered it an irony of her life that she was often drawn to men who didn't recognize teasing even when she was inflicting it on them.

Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.

But then July accepted it and never scolded back, so perhaps that was the way of the world: women scolded, and men kept quiet and stayed out of the way as much as possible.

It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.

The thought crossed his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wouldn't be in such a fix. But he felt little fear; just an overpowering fatigue. Life had slipped out of line. It was unfair, it was too bad, but he couldn't find the energy to fight it any longer.

It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.

Well, we've never had a divorce in our family, Aurora said, but if we have to have one, Tomas is a good place to start.

It was often that way with women, it seemed. One minute Lorie would be drilling holes in him with her eyes, and the next minute she and Clarie would be combing one another's hair and singing tunes.

With both the Indian and the women he was always left with the feeling that, without meaning to, he had made some kind of mistake.

He doesn't talk much, though, she added. I don't care whether he talks or not, Lorena said. I wouldn't marry a man just for conversation. I'd rather read and having to know how than listen to some man talk.

She sighed. Men were a pain.

Besides, though she considered herself his sweetheart, she didn't consider him her master.

It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.

The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.