Quotes About Relationship

As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks. And the reply comes instantly: For anything.

To get something, you must give something away. To hold something, you must give something away. To love something, you must give something away.

It was, I thought, a simple equation: You find the right person. You do the right things. And from that, everything goes right.

reservation, n. There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when I feel the darkest discontent. I never meant to depend so much on someone else.

I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on its own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.

he was solid. he was there as i dissolved.

After a year, Peter and Neil feel they are beyond the discovery phase. But we're sure that they will continually discover this not to be the case. There's always something new to learn about the person you love.

The had compatible silences.

I know that deep down, I mean the world to him. - Deep down? [...] You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.

I did not want the universe's ever-growing entropy to interfere with my lovelife

I push her hair over her ear. Look her in the eye. Feel so much love for her then that it feels like the love I have for life itself.

I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say.

We remember what it was like to meet someone new. We remember what it was like to grant someone possibility. You look out from your own world and then you step into his, not really knowing what you'll find there, but hoping it will be something good.

basis, n.: There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're inlove with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.

Amber nods. "I once went out with a witch. It didn't end well." "What happened?" "I didn't get along with her cat.

Just because I don't think we'd be good together doesn't mean we have to be apart. ...

The question is there in each silence. The question is there in the space between you. But you cannot bring it aloud.

People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life. But if you cannot have that regular presence, you only have the one foundation to support you, always

Being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them...but it can also mean you're trapped.[...] There are many things that can keep you in a relationship.[...] Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.

Rayanne: I think part of him is partly interested in you. Definitely. I mean, he's got other things on his mind. Angela: But that's the part that's so unfair. I have nothing else on my mind. How comes I have to be the one sitting around analyzing him in like microscopic detail, and he gets to be the one with other things on his mind. Rickie: That is deep.

Love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that's all

I'll see you later, I say. Such a basic promise. But to Rhiannon, it means the world.

I said I hated life. You said you hated life. We decided to hate it together.