Quotes About Relationships

What husband wants a wife who thinks she's smarter than he is?

It was easier for me to begin picking at Snow Flower's faults than to feel the emotions raging inside of me.

Her house is the nest where she hides the joy, laughter, sorrows, and

sociedad matrifocal.

Pocos hombres pueden salir adelante sin una mujer, mientras que las mujeres no necesitamos tener a un hombre al lado.

This is a novel about sisters...typically sisters are the longest relationship we'll have in our lifetimes. A sister is someone who should stand by you and support you and love you no matter what, and yet it's also your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife and hurt you the most.

All women on earth-and men too, for that matter-hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, and gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

Do-saeng finally joined the conversation. Not many men can do without a wife, while all women can do without a husband.

Non vi è ferita più profonda o dolorosa di quella inferta da coloro che sostengono di amarti di più.

DR. ROSEN: Does the phrase grateful-but-angry have resonance for anyone? You can be grateful you have your mom and dad, because they love you and they've given you good lives with all kinds of privilege.

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. She is the only person left in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our Shanghai, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph. My sister is the one person who truly knows me, as I know her. The last thing May says to me is "When our hair is white, we'll still have our sister love.

No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one

I finally meet a guy who's interesting and who seems to have a half-interest in me and it is TOTALLY the wrong time and place.

People didn't fall in love with other people. They fell in love with how other people made them feel about themselves. And so, it was easy to get someone to love you—if you knew how they wanted to feel.

He'd been raised to give women what they wanted. 'You can fight,' his father told him. 'You can bitch. If you're a real prick, you can overpower. But the pain over the long haul ... just not worth it, son. Surrender young and happily with fewer scars.' The old man was right about that.

Each of us extracted different people from our parents by our personalities and hence we had different experiences growing up.

You can put on a mask and a costume for the rest of the world, but you can't hide from the people who changed your diapers.

When you're young it's easy to confuse passion for love.

You didn't wind up on a pole without a lot of help from your family.

Never forget those first five minutes, when you thought how much you loved each other was the only thing that mattered. Because in truth it is the only thing that matters. That love is what gets you through all the other stuff.

People only stay in your life if they want to. So often, they just go away. And there's really nothing you can do.

Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. Or punishment, depending on the circumstances.

It's not how we feel about someone that makes us love them, Annie, it's how they make us feel about ourselves.

He didn't respect or even understand that other people had boundaries and only bullies pushed through them.