Quotes About Relationships

Grandma Ponder said, Show me a man wears a diamond ring, and I'll show you a wife beater.

LAVINIA: He made me feel for the first time in my life that everything about love could be sweet and natural... I have a right to love!

Love never has reasons, and neither does lack of love. They are all miracles.

What was interesting about being the needy one was how much in love you felt...He'd lost the ability to be an asshole. Now he was smitten, and it felt both tremendous and scary.

We are, in other words, continuous with everything here on earth. Including, and especially, each other.

However we choose to think of the social body, we are each other's environment. Immunity is a shared space--a garden we tend together.

Worse still, today's digital network is commodifying friendships so that it becomes, quite literally, the currency of the new social economy.

You know you're in love when the most interesting conversation you have with the opposite gender is about the one you claim to be in love with.

Funny how people don't really see each other. Men and women. They invent each other in their minds and then they see what they invent.They don't really see each other. Now she was in love with him and she didn't even know his real name, didn't know anything real about him.

Maybe the problem is that you are trying to understand a philosophy instead of trying to get to know a man." I recognized this on the instant as the single smartest thing anyone had ever said to me.

I bet if you ask them, you'd find out they have moms too. Nicki and Jim. Meredith. They maybe all have moms." "Maybe even you," I said. "Well let's not jump to conclusions," Palmer drawled.

Sorrow is the price of love in a world where nothing lasts. Isn't it?" He smiled back at her fondly. "Yes. Yes, I suppose it is." "Without love and sorrow we're just objects in space," said Molly. Winter was surprised by a surge of emotion. He pressed his lips together.

I can't compete with the woman in your head, Cam. I don't even know if she's real.

The secret for a man trying to understand a woman is to listen to what she means, not what she says.

I do tend to like people in practice, even though I've built an airtight

Leslie didn't feel welcome, though she recognized that this was, again, mostly her problem. Wasn't alienation always your own fault? People were what they were. You could either get in line and find a way to make it work or be a soul adrift upon the wandering etc. People could surprise you. People were interesting. The problem was you.

What do you actually care about?" "People," I said. "All right, E.M. Forster.

Is it easy? Usually not. But you don't forgive people for their benefit. You do it for your benefit.

I was loved, to be certain, but loved by people who didn't know how to love themselves.

And even though it kills me when you're not looking at me, or it feels that way, I love the fact that you're still trying to put things together—to make them better. And I'd never sacrifice that, even if it meant your eyes were always on me.

People who share last names tend to be related and get together more often for meals and are less guarded about eating off one another's plates and exchanging germs. This creates pockets of infection over weekends that soon extend to schools and work. The presence of convention centers added to the calculation.

Theory of Mind to practical use—understanding how others see the world.

meal together, their internal lives far more interesting than the ones they share with each other.

There are only two audible words on the entire tape from this man and you think he's the pope?" He asks me this as if he's a father questioning me, his teenage daughter, about the dent in the family car. Do men see these power relationships in the same way? Do other women? I put that question on the side burner.