Quotes About Relationships

She looked away from him. This was one reason she didn't date cops. They lied far too easily.

Hey, Reed, you have a knack for pissing me off, but when I hear your voice, I get all melty inside. Right.

Mothers always fuss about the way you eat. You can hardly eat any way that pleases them.

Ma didn't think puns were funny but couldn't help laughing at the naughty look Pa gave her when he made one.

Love is worn like a wreath through the summers and the winters

Using love to escape love, groping for love outside the home - it's kind of like smoking and wearing a nicotine patch at the same time: two delivery systems for an addictive chemical substance that feels vitally necessary to your well-being at the moment, even if likely to wreak unknown havoc in the deepest fibers of your being at some unspecified future date.

Love is also a way of forgetting what the question is. Using love to escape love, groping for love outside the home to assuage the letdowns of love at home - it's kind of like smoking and wearing a nicotine patch at the same time: two delivery systems for an addictive chemical substance that feels vitally necessary to your well-being at the moment, even if likely to wreak unknown havoc in the deepest fibers of your being at some unspecified future date.

we find mates who bring out the worst in us: a partner is sent by the universe as a character test, to expose what you're really made of.

All in all, when I look at my dating life from the bigger perspective, it pretty much sucks. If it were a bar graph, and each guy were a different colored bar, and the side of the graph measured things like stupidity, lack of consideration, and overpowering lust, the colored bars of all the guys I've dated would crash through the top of the graph and rocket skyward like a testosterone-fueled rainbow.

See that's it. You can't try to love somebody. You just do it.

Aren't you going to answer it? Lopez asked. I'm afraid it's my mother, I said. She calls on Sundays? No, she calls whenever things are going badly.

Love the people who love you back.

She had no intention of breaking anyone's heart, except maybe her own.

I have found that people never love the way they say they do. They can't. They are just people. Full of lies and sentiment and fear.

You will see the world. You will have love affairs with boys who see past a pretty face. You will be strong. You will call and tell me about it.

Sex isn't good unless it means something. It doesn't necessarily need to mean love and it doesn't necessarily need to happen in a relationship, but it does need to mean intimacy and connection...There exists a very fine line between being sexually liberated and being sexually used.

Girls were always attracted to middle-aged men with interesting pasts.' The relationship is all about hero-worship on one side, youth-worship on the other

The men of her family – Frederick, Monty – were lovable and weak. The women could see life for what it was and bear it.

In 168 hours, there is plenty of space to nurture yourself alongside your career and your relationships.

How can you make someone love you when they won't? How long are you supposed to keep trying?

Meredith's a big girl. She knows how babies are made, don't you, Mer? I nod, numb and weary. 'Course I do. Same guy that taught you taught me.

And yet: reacting feels involuntary. As long as we're both breathing, we'll probably forever misread each other's faces; second-guess and misinterpret each other's thoughts, feelings, and motives in the worst possible way.

I meant that sometimes we choose partners who, in some ways, remind us of our parents. The good and the bad parts of them.

Isn't everyone's true purpose to love and be loved? To be in service to and to take care of those who need us most?