Quotes About Relationship

I thought he was going to leave me in a state of deep and continuing mystery but I really didn't mind because he'd called me 'dear boy',

the bond of blood. How strong it is, and how it has the power to reach across oceans.

Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.

My father taught me how to understand and be sensitive to others, which is probably the most critical aspect of leadership. Without it you are only a manager.

When Christ called disciples, he did not say, "Come, have a personal relationship with me." No, he simply said, "Follow me." Hear the difference? Follow me suggests a mission. A goal. But a personal relationship with Jesus suggests we're headed to Starbucks for some couple time.

If my boyfriend offered me up for a voodoo ritual sacrifice, I'd have some serious questions about the future of the relationship.

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him but I can't. I am building a life with a man I don't love, and I don't know what to do about it.

As the possibility of a relationship had faded, Emma had endeavored to harden herself to Dexter's indifference and these days a remark like this caused no more pain than, say, a tennis ball thrown sharply at the back of her head.

Call me or I'll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it's not a competition. You don't lose I you phone first.

He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.

The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.

She made you decent, and in return, you made her so happy.

The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.

but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.

and not for the first time she felt a reassuring shiver of dislike for him.

I was looking forward to us growing old together. Me and you, growing old and dying together. Douglas, who in their right mind would look forward to that?

I'm not expressing myself very well—' 'Dexter, I understand you perfectly, that's the problem—

It's like everyone has a central dilemma in their life, and mine was can you be in a committed, mature, loving adult relationship and still get invited to threesomes?" - Dexter Mayhew

great deal of stress is placed on the importance of humour in the modern relationship. Everything will be all right, we are led to believe, as long as you can make each other laugh, rendering a successful marriage as, in effect, fifty years of improv. To someone who felt in need of fresh new material, as I did during that long, dehydrated night of the soul, this was a cause for concern. I had always enjoyed making Connie laugh, it was satisfying and reassuring because laughter, I suppose

She made you decent. And in return you made her so, so happy.

Then they kiss again, and she goes to work, and he goes to work, and so the days go by, faster than ever.

Clearly the key to having a long and successful marriage would be to have a non-lethal heart attack every three months or so

I had an infinite number of questions and would have been happy for her to recount her life in real time, would have been happy to walk on past Whitechapel and Limehouse into Essex and the estuary and on into the sea if she'd wanted to.