Quotes About Relationships

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

You were the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all that we needed.

Don't waste time when there's someone you love.

How wonderful to say whatever you wanted without having to go over it in your mind, again and again, to make certain it wouldn't set him off.

Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.

She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.

She said she wanted a man like that, someone who understood sorrow, not someone who caused it.

For love changes everything and forces us into lives we never imagined we might lead

Love more, her aunt had said. Not less.

When people related by blood were so careful with each other, when they were so very polite, there was soon nothing left to say. Only niceties that meant so little they might as well have been spoken to a complete stranger. Pass the butter, open the door, see you after school, there's rain again, it's sunny, it's cold. Has the dog eaten? Has the window been shut? Where are you going? Why is it I don't know you at all? Such statements did not add up to anything like a family...

what does love matter in a world where it's so easy to hurt someone?

Men are men, with all their flaws, as we have ours, that's true, but the best among them manage to discover who we really are.

Men and women rarely speak to each other, though they often talk.

Every woman is only one bad boyfriend or one bad choice away from the street. And she's only one good choice back to the path that will lead her home.

That just goes to show that you never can tell about a person by guessing, Frances informs her niece. That's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

My expectations of what I wanted in a man I learned from a dog: loyalty and kindness.

If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and amgels can't love the way men and women do.

Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.

I didn't understand that when I closed myself to her, I took a part of her bitterness inside me. It was green and unforgiving, and as it grew it made me more like her. It gave me my strength, but it gave me my weakness as well.

You don't forget the people you love, she told him. That's what I've realized. They just get farther away. Like a spyglass turned around. Annie to Pete

What did we know about those closest to us, really? No one ever dared to speak plainly about desire; no one said the word out loud.

Because love is an act of will. You think it will just happen, but you have to make it so. Even when it's gone wrong. Wait and see. If love doesn't come to you, you have to go find it.

In the human world you had to choose your loyalties carefully. You had to see through to someone's heart.

They had likely been together twenty times, an entire world created in just days.