Quotes About Relationships

Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

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 did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen

They were getting to know not only the details of each other's lives, but getting to know one another - a different thing. The process of getting to know anyone is not merely a matter of listening, watching, and understanding. M. Maurois has pointed out how, in any new relationship, we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest; for them, we in a strange sense wish to, and do, start life anew.

It is surprising the amount of talk that two people will get through during a week of solid tête-à-tête. Now in modern life it is an extreme rarity, outside marriage, to get a week of uninterrupted companionship with any human being.

Is this how you get dates? You drag women into your car, lock them inside and don't let them out till they've agreed to go out with you?

Are you setting me up?" "Dear God in heaven, no! She's sworn off relationships with men, so you're safe. Besides, I don't think anything permanent would work with you." She paused. "I was thinking more along the lines of a fling." "Jesus Christ," Jake muttered, running a hand down his face. "You're pimping me out.

Once burned and twice shy in love, Dara plans to study hard and graduate at the top of her law school class. Sean's romantic overtures don't tempt her. But Sean's brother Mike is her new boss, and his piercing gaze and brooding presence are infinitely harder to resist. Dara's internship at

We were never soulmates, you know. We never lived in each other's pockets. But in a way, that was why it worked. We were so different that we learned from each other, there was something new to discuss when we did come together. But

He was a great family man, a bit too soft-hearted for a policeman, in Vera's opinion; but then she thought Holly was heartless, so perhaps she was never pleased.

The one thing Vera knew about parents was that they liked talking about their offspring.

Wesley didn't really like people who made demands on him,' Janey said. 'It was always the other way around. And depressed people can be very demanding.

As always after a trip home, he wondered why he found it so difficult to get on with his father. There were never arguments, no real antagonism, but he always left feeling an edgy mixture of guilt and inadequacy.

When she married Jeremy she had assumed there was money in the background. It hadn't quite worked out that way.

Perhaps it was healthier to hate your mother. Perhaps she should be grateful that Margaret had treated her like shit.

A tad jealous. She didn't have any personal experience of happy families.

How can you expect me to go away with you, with this hanging over us. Just sort it out!

Every relationship for him was a sort of competition and he liked winning, even here when it was part of the job to be cooperative.

Before she spoke again, he cut off her call because he didn't need her misery as well as his own

She'd always thought he missed having his laundry done more than he missed his wife's company.

I will tell him, but when I've reached a state when I can't pretend any longer.' 'Isn't it a strain, all this pretence?' Lorraine gave a little laugh. 'All couples pretend about something. We'd go mad if we were honest all the time. Successful relationships are made up of white lies, small attempts at flattery, aren't they? We want our partners to be happy, so we tell them the stories they want to hear.

All couples pretend about something. We'd go mad if we were honest all the time. Successful relationships are made up of white lies, small attempts at flattery, aren't they? We want our partners to be happy, so we tell them the stories they want to hear.