Quotes About Relationships

If you're going to treat me like some piece of special-occasion china that gets taken out when you don't think I'll get hurt, we're—we're doomed.

Her antipathy towards Strike seemed to have evaporated. He was not surprised; he had met the phenomenon many times. People liked to talk; there were very few exceptions; the question was how you made them do it. Some, and Ursula was evidently one of them, were amenable to alcohol; others liked a spotlight; and then there were those who merely needed proximity to another conscious human being.

He loved his aunt, who'd raised him for significant chunks of his childhood, but extended periods in her company made him feel stifled and suffocated. Her insistence on the smooth passing of counterfeit social coin from hand to hand, while uncomfortable truths were ignored and denied, wore him out.

it is hard to throw off long-established love: hard, but this you must managed somehow

becos he fucks with people's heads. He's a control freak. he doesn't like anyone having relationships that don't involve him. Either you're a suck up like Hartella or you end up getting kicked out. Ive only lasted this long because he needs me

Some people need to be needed . . .

Just for a moment, as he pulled himself back inside the Land Rover, Strike wondered where he'd be if he lived to eighty, and who'd be there with him.

Love never comes but at love's call, And pity asks for him in vain; Because I cannot give you all, You give me nothing back again.

they said, you won't be alone, you have something you've built, and all right, it might not be a family, but there are still people who care about you waiting in London

Love...was pain and grief sought, accepted, endured.

She thought of the day that Matthew had asked her out for the very first time and remembered walking home from school, her insides on fire with excitement and pride. She remembered Sarah Shadlock giggling, leaning against him in a pub in Bath, and Matthew frowning slightly and pulling away. She thought of Strike and Elin . . . what have they got to do with anything?

There was shame in being single.

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.

Jack said, 'The only friends we don't spare--who do not escape our scrutiny--are our lovers and those who become our enemies.

That brought a scowl from Wolfe. He hates nothing more than cases involving what he terms "rancorous domestic relations.

If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

Men only give you what they give you...when they know they can't give you what you want.

You wreck your own life and then, very gently, you wreck the lives of those around you.

He would move from city to city as he had always done, using people, soiling them like sheets and walking away, to find fresh faces and new diversions.

The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

Marriage, like money, is still with us and, like money, progressively devalued.

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

Intimacy is to love what concentration is to work: a simultaneous drawing together of attention and release of energy.