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Quotes About Relationship

Most men got married because they were comfortable where they were, and breaking free was too hard and too unpleasant.
~ Ilona Andrews
If he ever told me that my wife is a 'potential threat' again, I would become a real and immediate threat.
~ Ilona Andrews
Don't say anything up front," I murmured. "We can just let them sort of come to terms with it . . ." The door swung open. An older African-American woman stood in the doorway. She wore an apron, and she had big dark eyes, just like Jim. "Dali, this is my mother," Jim said. "Mom, this is Dali. She's my mate.
~ Ilona Andrews
loving someone and being with him were two different things.
~ Ilona Andrews
Nadira stared at him for another long moment. "Why can't anything be simple with you, Matias?" "Because life is complicated." She'd exhaled and waved him off. "Go. Practice. Work on achieving harmony. I need to pray.
~ Ilona Andrews
You can try. Not that you'll get anywhere. If you were in love, that would be one thing, but we both know this is pride talking." Audrey patted his forearm. "It's all right. I won't tell anybody about your shameful failure. I'll keep it completely confidential.
~ Ilona Andrews
I'm formally proposing. The first time it didn't take. Kill me, somebody. Curran! Get Up. People are looking at us.
~ Ilona Andrews
I feel like we've had a real breakthrough here, Landon," Hugh said. "This is the most honest conversation we've ever had.
~ Ilona Andrews
Before I take a man into my bed, I need to know him. I want to trust him and like him.
~ Ilona Andrews
I don't know a room suitable to a woman I asked to marry me and who replied with 'maybe.
~ Ilona Andrews
Sex is about physical attraction, yes, but it's also about trust. I don't trust you. You're completely self-absorbed and egoistic. You offer nothing I want.
~ Ilona Andrews
You see, the mailman saw your husband during one of his walks." "He's my fiancé," I told her. "We are living in sin." Heather blinked, momentarily knocked off her stride, but recovered. "Oh, that's nice." "It's very nice. I highly recommend it.
~ Ilona Andrews
I gave him my hard stare. "You're a control freak and I fight all authority. And you want us to mate?" A wicked spark lit his eyes. "Many, many times.
~ Ilona Andrewsna Andrews
Could you please find out if it would be possible for me to be exchanged for my wife—I would perhaps be more useful in her place and she would be better off here. If this is impossible, maybe I could be taken to her—we would be better off together.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Un'unione dove il cuore non ha voce è una caricatura dell'amore coniugale.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Even at the very end of life, healing a relationship can transform the history of a family. A relationship that is complete need not end; in this context, complete means there is nothing left unsaid or undone. When a dying person and a loved one come to feel complete between themselves, time together tends to be as full of joy and loving affection as sadness.
~ Ira Byock
A good working relationship with the doctor and health care team of the person being cared for is probably the single most important thing that caregivers need.
~ Ira Byock
The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
~ Iris Murdoch
When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what one achieves is no longer knowledge, it is simply a kind of co-existence; and this too is one of the guises of love.
~ Iris Murdoch
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
~ Iris Murdoch
Now, when she felt so deeply connected to him, they were finally estranged.
~ Iris Murdoch
I am sorry that our friendship, or whatever name one may give to the obsessive relationship which has bound us together for so many years, should end in this way. This is not the place to utter its elegy.
~ Iris Murdoch
You don't respect me, said Dora, her voice trembling. Of course I don't respect you, said Paul. Have I any reason to? I'm in love with you, unfortunately, that's all. Well, it's unfortunate for me too, said Dora, starting to cry.
~ Iris Murdoch
And this great love makes you both ruthless .
~ Iris Murdoch