Quotes About Relationships

Strangers are friends that you have yet to meet.

Ahora mismo, yo me pregunto, mirándote: ¿Con qué ojos mira una mujer a un hombre? Eso es lo que nunca sabremos. ¿No te parece? Vos para mí eras un desgraciado, al que de un revés se lo saca uno de adelante. Pero para ella, ¿quién eras vos? Ese es el punto oscuro. ¿Lo supiste alguna vez? Decíme francamente: ¿supiste vos en tu corazón qué hombre eras para tu mujer? ¿Qué es lo que ella vio en vos para sufrir tanto a tu lado, y soportarte como lo hizo?

No existo ni para el capitán ni para Elsa, ni para Barsut.

I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.

It's good to love. It's bad to be impressionable.

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better. But better can sometimes mean worse, if you're a woman

I'd love her until the end of time, he thought. An hour later he'd already forgotten the matter completely.

una vida triste, llena de pequeñas mezquindades, algunas hechas sin ni siquiera mala intención.

Se puede conquistar a una muchacha con un poema, pero no se la puede retener con un poema.

One is prepared for friendship, not for friends.

As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

Spirituality can be an important framework to help us know ourselves better while building relationships with other people in our world.

A woman's difficulty is that she has a much wider choice of men to provide her with genes than she has of long-term partners. She could probably persuade many men of her choice to give her their genes — it takes only a few minutes of sex, after all. Her options for a long-term partner, though, are much more limited.

it was found that girls who were exposed to an attempt at date rape were three times more likely to resume their relationship with the man concerned if his attempt succeeded than if it failed

In choosing a man or men with whom to share her life, a woman has two major issues to consider. On the one hand, she needs a man who can help her raise her children. On the other, she needs genes that in combination with her own will produce attractive, fertile and successful children.

studies show that when a woman leaves one partner for another, she invariably moves up the scale to a better compromise

Often, a woman is already pregnant when she settles down with a long-term partner, and occasionally this partner is not the father of her child. Sometimes he knows this and takes on the woman and her child anyway, for reasons we have discussed, but sometimes he doesn't know. The woman is least likely to be unfaithful in the weeks or months preceding the conception of her second child. Subsequent children, however, are more and more likely to be the product of infidelity.

Whether a man is twenty or seventy, therefore, his preferred age for a new partner is about twenty, or even younger.

The more men and women drink, the more they both seek intercourse — or, at least, the less they resist it.

older women often 'fit in' a stable homo-sexual relationship between successive heterosexual ones

You know what they say," Amanda said. "Hatred isn't the opposite of love, it's just another variation of it. They both mean you have passionate feelings for someone.

Remember I told you I've taken a vow of chastity. You understand what that means, right? Yeah," he said. "You're very generous. I think that's cool." I didn't quite get his answer, but I didn't want to prolong the conversation. [...] That's when it dawned on me what Greg had meant. [...] Um, that's charity, Greg, not chastity. He is so not the right guy for me.(137-138)

Is it just me, or is that guy the coolest boyfriend ever invented?" "It's not just you." And there was that same dull pain-the one I get sometimes when I see the two of them together and realize I'll never have that. I gave Amanda a smile. "He's great. I'm really happy for you." And that was a hundred percent true. But it didn't make it hurt any less.