Quotes About Relationships

Love messes you up and makes you do strange things

She laid land mines in my skill that detonated weeks later.

The greatest strength of all is daring to love.

It had become easier to lie about most things because it didn't hurt as much when he ignored me.

Oh, wait a minute—when have I seen this before? Got another girlfriend, Daddy? Ready for round two in divorce court? Don't forget to line up a good shrink for Emma; she thinks you're a god.

I wasn't going to let her sucker me into being her friend again just so she could turn around and crush me one more time.

Mom filed for divorce. In the counselor's office, my parents claimed that we would always be a family because of me, but things would be better now. No more yelling, no more arguments. By tearing our family apart, they were actually making it stronger. By the time I figured out that they were not making any sense, the family counseling was done and Dad was walking down the aisle with Jennifer.

Most relationships come with expiration dates just like milk and bread. Some go sour before you can taste them.

At best, love is simply the slipping of a hand in another's, of knowing you are where you belong at last, and of exchanging through the eyes that all-consuming regard which ignores everybody else on earth.

Bad boyfriends don't disguise themselves; their girlfriends do it for them.

I don't think my Dad was ready for me to come back home, either. I think it had been a long time since he was forced to make conversation at the kitchen table over coffee, especially with the person who had been canceling out his vote in every single election since the mid-eighties.

I could never, I knew then, lose myself in love. Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she was also wrong: For me, for always, the paramount organ of passion was the mind. Unnatural, unbalanced, perhaps, but it was true: Without intellect, there could be no love.

Oddly enough, the very considerations that had made marriage impossible for him were mirrored in my own being: a rabidly independent nature, an impatience with lesser minds, total unconventionality, and the horror of being saddled with someone who would need cosseting and protection—the

he met a nice girl and got married, and they had a kid, and then either he found out she wasn't so nice after all, or she found out he wasn't, or the discovery was mutual. They got a divorce

No, liebchen, not if it's too painful for you to talk about it." "Devious sheenie bastard." "Devious, yes. Sheenie, yes. Bastard, no. What did you used to do in bed?

The book was We Walk Alone by Ann Aldrich.

Women (don't) follow logic's rules when they (commit) adultery.

Love Yourself And Let The Other Person Have It Your Way

Seeking love from another person is the biggest waste of your time.

If your happiness depends on someone else, all they have to do is pull the rug out from under you and you're miserable.

Almost all people mistake ego approval for love. Because it is not love, it is not satisfying. Consequently, one continuously needs and demands it. And, this produces only frustration.

All it knows is, if the person doesn't do what you want them to do, beat them up, disapprove of them, send some negative energy their way, ridicule them. This is our idea of love: Do what I want you to do and I'll love you. Don't do what I want you to do and I'll have nothing to do with you. That approach isn't working for you, is it?

Lovers are never equally matched - do you think? One always overshadows the other and stunts his or her growth so that the overshadowed one must always be tormented by a desire to escape, to be free to grow. Surely this is the only tragic thing about love?

Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.