Quotes About Relationships

Friendships grow from small acts of kindness

Whe you're so infatuated with someone like I was with Drew,it's very difficult to see them for what they really are

Men like Jack didn't want to go out with a real woman - they wanted the idea they had of what a woman was. That was probably why I intrigued Jack: I wasn't cute and cuddly, and every time there'd been an opportunity to be a 'lady' I hadn't taken it - I'd been nothing like the idea he probably had of womanliness in his head. That presented a challenge. And if there was anything men like Jack craved more than a demure woman, it was a challenging woman to tame.

I want to tell her that this isn't 'love'. that 'love' doesn't stay the same, it changes like we do, it is shaped by our experiences, by what we do, who we meet, what we learn. I'd like to explain that falling in love now is not how it'll be forever, and even if you stay with the same boy for the rest of your life, this incarnation of love won't stay the same, it never does.

You can never compete with someone's first love.

As mentiras têm vida. Elas vivem. Depois de as contarmos, temos de cuidar delas, de as alimentar, acarinhar, de lhes dar atenção, fazer companhia... dar amor e afeto, talvez, como qualquer outro ser vivos pelo qual somos responsáveis.

São aqueles que mais amamos que nos animam num instante e nos destroem sem se esforçarem.

Maybe part of the problem of feeling like this life isn't my real life is that I have no connections, no real links to anyone.

No matter how much you may love someone, you never possess them. You can only ever borrow the right to spend time with them.

Share too much and someone can hurt you.

Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.

When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them.

It's the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.

The only thing for it is to use men for sex and never let any of them get so close they could hurt you.

The thing I am most afraid of is love. When you say you love someone you are giving them license to hurt you.

I never trusted any man not to find someone else; to stay with me if he had another option. to not find something in me that would have him heading for the hills. that was the other reason for not thinking long-term- when someone walked out, as they invairiably did, it wasn't too big a shock. a disappointment but nothing, I hadn't been expecting.

He just hijacks me. I love him. And I won't be able to give anyone a real chance until that's over.

To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.

I think what love is changes over time, as you grow older, learn more, do more.

No matter how much you love a man, always have a stash of money that would get you as far away from him as possible in an emergency.

When you love someone, them being hurt is worse than any pain that you could suffer.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.