Quotes About Relationships

I think you will find someone and love them and you will live and die for them because that is your way and you will.

I think you will find someone and love them and you will live and die for them because that is your way and you will. And I'll watch…

I could never love anyone as I love my sisters.

I don't want a fashionable wedding, but only those about me whom I love, and to them I wish to look and be my familiar self.

If friendship were a matter of bookkeeping -- so much joy in one column, so much sorrow in the other -- everything would cancel out and you would, it seems, be left with nothing. Yet there must be another factor in the equation, for somehow the joy outweighs the sorrow.

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.

You see I thought love got easier over, the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash. She loved him. She was jealous. She mourned him like the dead. And he just smiled into the air, trapped in the seams of his mind.

There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.

You can't get over things you do to other people as easily as you get over things they do to you.

And Patrice thought another thing her mother said was definitely true—you never really knew a man until you told him you didn't love him. That's when his true ugliness, submerged to charm you, might surface.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones. Our pulse is set to theirs, and as always on a weekend afternoon we were waiting for my mother to start us ticking away on the evening.

The worst kind of loneliness gripped him. The kind you feel alongside another person.

The Morgans were never litigious.

had a wide business acquaintance, but few associates knew him well.

This transaction required Bill's signature, but John's relations with his father were so uneasy that he had to ask brother Frank and Pierson Briggs to act as intermediaries.

Rockefeller's sisters played a limited role in his adult life.

Financial partnerships are combustible affairs that frequently blow up as a result of personality clashes and disputes over money.

Eliza's death, far from putting the whole situation to rest, only inflamed John's feelings anew, complicating his stormy relationship with his father.

In later years, when an acquaintance inquired what had pained him most in the course of his eventful life, Grant responded readily, To be deceived by a friend. p809

One possible reason for this contrition was that Frank was chronically in debt to his brother.

where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent, for there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

As long as the right conditions were met, this controlling father was always happy to be generous.