Quotes About Relationships

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again.

He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly

At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold.

Since I love him so much, I can easily forgive him for loving himself.

What interests me is what dogs bring out in people, mirroring humanity's best and worst.

Men like other men who share the same interests so that they can focus their activities and discussions on things that are satisfying for both of them. Women are less concerned with common interests than with common character.

The evidence is clear that women more than men are relationship special­ists. Women's interpersonal sensitivity has been examined by looking at the ability to read non-verbal information from other's behavior such as posture, vocal inflection, and facial expression. Many studies have examined sex dif­ferences in accuracy and the results clearly favor women.

It is women who act as the gatekeeper in terms of the frequency of sex. For example, it is women, not men, who decide at what point in a relationship sexual intercourse will take place and that point is later than men typically want.

Love does not make me gentle or kind.

Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

Humans in love are terrible. You see them come hungering at one another like prehistoric wolves, you see something struggling for life in between them like a root or a soul and it flares for a moment, then they smash it. The difference between them smashes the bones out. So delicate the bones.

When I contemplate the physical spaces that articulate the letters 'I love you' in a written text, I may be led to think about other spaces, for example the space that lies between 'you' in the text and you in my life.

All lovers believe they are inventing love.

Love does not happen without loss of vital self. The lover is the loser. Or so he reckons. But his reckoning involves a

Jealousy is a dance in which everyone moves, for it is the instability of the emotional situation that preys upon a jealous lover's mind.

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

Just the way all mothers are crazy to their daughters, all mothers are wrong.

We are very happy. Or, no. We are not happy, exactly. But we love each other very much, and this charges our lives with shape and light.

It was a delicate business, being the Not Wife.

Rosaleen was a nuisance. Her children thought she was a nuisance because it was true. She was. A Nuisance. Rosalene was a nightmare. She was very difficult. She was incrasingly difficult. She made her children cry.

And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.

Scientists do not simply read nature to find truths to apply in the social world. Instead, they use truths taken from our social relationships to structure, read, and interpret the natural

Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she nags us the whole day long about the bad weather. It really would be nice to dump her in a bucket of cold water and put her up in the loft.