Quotes About Relationships

This was the way love walked in, barely dressed, confused, panic-stricken, overcome, not caring what anyone thought or what they believed.

When a person accepted a gift from someone, she was accepting the way the giver felt about her as well, any fool knew that.

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

Love is trouble, and trouble is love.

Frances was sulky and suspicious, while Jet was kindhearted and so sensitive that a negative remark could make her break into hives.

You lose people sometimes, you know. You don't expect to, but then it happens and you can't get them back.

there was a distance between us. Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.

Love is not always under our control

How had love come to this? This twisted dark place. The phone calls, the fear, the look on his face when he drove by the house.

He wondered if what people said was true, that no one could hate you more than members of your own family.

Love is the one thing that's not easy to find. It's an achievement, Eddie, to feel such a glorious emotion, whether it's returned or not. Some men never do.

You didn't have to be cursed in love to know that when you loved someone you were open to great loss.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies: and the First combinations of mankind.

To love someone so complicated you had to be committed to a single emotion—the way you loved him—no matter what. In that way, it was indeed simple.

It's pure vanity to presume that love exists only on our terms. A red lead may be the universe for the tortoise beetle or the ladybird. A single touch the ecstasy of a lifetime. (180)

April certainly wasn't the first person to have fallen for Vincent, or the first to be wounded by his indifference. She'd been new and daring and exciting, but that had faded as time went on. Now she was just a girl who could easily be hurt.

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

If people aren't there for you now, when you really need them, they never will be, and it's time to move on. You'll be amazed by how many new friends you have in the after . They'll be the ones who aren't afraid of sorrow, who know we can't avoid it. The best we can do is face it together.

Maybe he understands that saying thank you can be just as hard as saying good-bye.

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.

Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow.

What he was doing was actually a hundred times worse. He was telling her that he loved her, something he hadn't mentioned and may not have even known when they were married. She used to whisper it to him sometimes, while he was fucking her, and he had to turn off his mind every time she did that. For some reason that declaration had seemed like a curse to him back then; he couldn't even hear it spoken aloud

He wasn't the first man she'd been with, and that hadn't been Bill back home either. It had been a boy she met on holiday when she was fifteen. She had decided it was time for her to have sex, the way someone else might decide it was time to get a driver's license, and she'd gone ahead with it. Pragmatic, that's the way she'd always been.

I'll know that sometimes those who love you best are the ones who leave you behind.