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Quotes About Relationships

Ah, that we could fall into women's arms without falling into their hands.
~ Ambrose Bierce
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
~ Ambrose Bierce
İki cinsin kat?l?m?n? gerektiren danslar?n iki ortak özelliÄŸi vard?r: Dikkat çekici biçimde masumdurlar ve niyeti kötü olanlar taraf?ndan sevilirler.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Conocido, s. Persona a quien conocemos lo bastante para pedirle dinero prestado, pero no lo suficiente para prestarle. Grado de amistad que llamamos superficial cuando su objeto es pobre y oscuro, e íntimo cuando es rico y famoso.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Excuse me." The cold voice behind us made me cringe for reasons that had nothing to do with falcons or Rei's abdication. Danica turned with a smile, and I struggled to do the same. Despite how well the recent months had gone, Nacola Shardae still refused to believe that a serpiente man could possibly be the right mate for her only daughter. Because of that, she hated me as only a mother could.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a child than a woman. I wanted to believe she knew what was best for me. I wanted to believe she was like every other mother and that she loved me more than I loved her. I hoped, if I followed her wishes, I would finally make her happy.
~ Ami McKay
I learned about women -- how we are made into the women we've become, how we shape ourselves, how we shape each other.
~ Aminatta Forna
There's something uncomfortable about looking at pictures of your parents at a time when they made each other happy.
~ Aminatta Forna
How easily they spoke of love. And yet, when she'd needed the certainty of his feeling for her, he'd let her slip away, never able to bring himself to tell her about the ways in which he'd been changed. He'd been incapable he'd let Nenebah believe the problem lay with her.
~ Aminatta Forna
Winning made people friendly. Winning too much made them nervous.
~ Joe Abercrombie
A man is measured by his enemies. Worthy ones can be more missed than friends.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Rejoice in what you have. Power, wealth, fame, they are ghosts! They are like the breeze, impossible to hold. There is no grand destination. Every path ends at the Last Door. Revel in the sparks one person strikes from another.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I bloody hate people," she muttered, snatching another loaf from Safrit's hand. It was hardly the good thing to say but for once Brand couldn't keep his mouth shut. "Don't worry." He dragged his blanket over one shoulder and turned his back on her. "They feel much the same about you.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Love and hate have just a knife's edge between them.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The worst enemies are the ones that live next door,
~ Joe Abercrombie
Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest.
~ Joe Abercrombie
When the best you can get from your wife's father is that he won't help to kill you, it doesn't take a clever man to see you're in shit to your chin.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Suddenly he felt that there had been so much he needed to say to his father. He had always supposed they would discuss the important things later. The profound things. But it would never happen. There had only been a fixed time in his presence, and Orso had pissed it all away talking about the weather, and there would be no more.
~ Joe Abercrombie
They were well matched. Optimist and pessimist, dreamer and cynic. And what is love anyway, but finding someone who suits you? Someone who makes up for your shortcomings? Someone you can work with. Work on.
~ Joe Abercrombie
In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Can't you stay with the other wives?' he wheedled. 'Please, just for now?' 'That prattling coven?' She screwed up her face. 'All they talk about is who's barren, who's unfaithful, and what the queen's wearing. They're idiots.' 'Have you ever noticed that everyone's an idiot but you?' She opened her eyes wide. 'You see it too?
~ Joe Abercrombie
you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.
~ Joe Abercrombie
It was difficult to maintain any sense of superiority in the face of his utter dependence on other people.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You don't pick your family, you take what you're given and you make the best of it.
~ Joe Abercrombie