Quotes About Relationship

the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?

You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

I can see by your face that I'll never persuade you. And that's surprising, because usually you at least try to see my side. I can see your side, said Cecily. I've got a much clearer view of it than you do, from over here on my side.

There is no harder job than parenting. There is no human relationship with such potential for great achievement and awful destructiveness, and despite all the experts who write about it, no one has the slightest idea whether any decision will be right or best or even not-horrible for any particular child. It is a job that simply cannot be done right.

Will he always come between us? Yes, said Ela. Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall.

Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument.

We've decided that your birthday present will be a car, said Marion. Danny was touched. But the thing I can't figure out is, why would I need a new car? You can't very well gate a girl to the movies, Danny, Leslie replied. I think you're overlooking the biggest point here, said Danny. I don't need a CAR so I can date. I need a GIRL.

Ruthie] ... if he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?

You treated me the way you like to be treated when you grieve, and now I'm treating you the way I like to be treated. We prescribe our own medicine for each other.

Two faces of the same coin. And I am the metal in between.

En el momento en que entiendo verdaderamente a mi enemigo, en el momento en el que le entiendo lo suficientemente bien como para derrotarle, entonces, en ese preciso instante, también le quiero.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

The next day he passed Alai in the corridor, and they greeted each other, touched hands, talked, but they both knew that there was a wall there now. It might be breached, that wall, sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken.

It takes one evangelist to understand another.

What I understand now is this: There is no harder job than parenting. There is no human relationship with such potential for great achievement and awful destructiveness, and despite all the experts who write about it, no one has the slightest idea whether any decision will be right or best or even not-horrible for any particular child. It is a job that simply cannot be done right.

But he was never one of them; their relationship was too unequal. He had loved them so he could know them, and he had known them so he could use them.

The prospect of sharing the rest of their lives held no dread for them. . . every word and movement between them carried their history and their future like background movement, shaping each moment even when they weren't aware of it.

It was possible, wasn't it, that he loved her, and that in this time of terrifying opportunity he was willing to weaken himself before her in order to win her love.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way the love themselves.

We are only human when we are part of a community.

though darkness bound them closer than light.

When I comfort you, you'll know it. And how will I know? Miro snapped back. Because you'll be comfortable, of course.