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Quotes About Relationships

There wasn't time for artifice; their connection was the destination, not the dance that preceded it.
~ Adriana Trigiani
I wonder if he knows that every time I make a joke, a little piece of my heart breaks off. It's just self-defense. It seems whenever we get close, he leaves.
~ Adriana Trigiani
I only wish I had more of myself to give; somehow my heart does not seem big enough to hold what I feel for him.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Tenderness and shame would remain closely tied in Matelda's heart until she learned the combination blocked her ability to truly love.
~ Adriana Trigiani
He decided to cling to those things that were wonderful about her, and to ignore the ravages of time and insecurity, instability, and anxiety.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Love yourself. That's the greatest adventure. When you love yourself, you want to find your purpose, something only you can do in the way only you can do it. Make things. Create. And if a man comes along—and believe me, he will—the relationship is already off to a good start because both of you love the same person. You. Lucky him.
~ Adriana Trigiani
A woman choses a man she thinks she deserves then sets out to change him to suit herself
~ Adriana Trigiani
Look out for yourself. A man who cares about your feelings, roots for your limitless future, and plans to guard your dreams as his own is a person that will make a good life partner.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them
~ Adriana Trigiani
A son is a son till he marries a wife; a daughter's a daughter the rest of her life.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Eventually, their differences brought them unhappiness, her aunt explained. It was then that her mother confided, "When you marry a man from your own village, you know how he salts his food.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both
~ Aesop
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
~ Aesop
The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.
~ Aesop
Little friends may prove great friends.
~ Aesop
A man is known by the company he keeps.
~ Aesop
He that has many friends, has no friends.
~ Aesop
Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.
~ Aesop
Fair weather friends are not worth much.
~ Aesop
There was once a Charcoal-burner who lived and worked by himself. A Fuller, however, happened to come and settle in the same neighbourhood; and the Charcoal-burner, having made his acquaintance and finding he was
~ Aesop
My memory is again in the way of your history
~ Agha Shahid Ali
Love, being in love, isn't a constant thing. It doesn't always flow at the same strength. It's not always like a river in flood. It's more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it's ebbing or flowing, it's always there, it never goes away. And that's the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
~ Aidan Chambers
However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
~ Aidan Chambers
I don't actually think "true love" is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.
~ Aidan Chambers