Quotes About Relationships

Although it was shadowy and dark, Bim could see as well as by the clear light of day that she felt only love and yearning for them all, and if there were hurts, these gashes in her side that bled, then it was only because her love was imperfect and did not encompass them thoroughly enough, and because it had flaws and inadequacies and did not extend to all equally.

Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

So Dorothy said we might was well go out to Fountainblo with Louie and Robber if Louie would take off his yellow spats which were made of yellow shammy skin with pink pearl buttons. Because Dorothy said, 'Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all the time.

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.

I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.

Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined. Or weren't quite as well known as you had hoped to be. In the beginning, a lover drank in every word and gesture and then tried to hold on to that intensity for as long as possible. But inevitable, if two people were together long enough, that intensity had to wane.

But how do you ever know that you know a person?

I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

Women want to find one man to satisfy their many needs while men want many women to satisfy their one need.

You Write For Me? OR, You're Right For Me.

All relationships have one law : Never make the one you love feel alone, especially when your there.

Never try to change a person. We all evolve as life goes on. Love people as they are.

People can only love you as much as they love themselves.

Some people put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.

Just because someone grows up shouldn't mean that the people who helped him get that way no longer counted.

And then there were the lesbians.

It's logical that everyone wants to be in love. Then, for a while, life isn't taken up with the tedium of thinking everything through, talking things through. It's nice to be able to notice small objects or small moments, to point them out and to have someone eager to pretend that there's more to them than it seems.

I do know happy marriages, including mine. But why write about something like that? I can't imagine writing, without irony, about people who are happy all the time.

The real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.