Quotes About Relationship

More than anything, I like just being there while he works, doing what he knows to do, in his own place.

I thought about him everyday until then. I started having these conversations with him in my head that you have when you meet someone you sense is going to be important in your life.

You did that when you started to care a lot-- you worried he was watching your every move to make sure he really wanted you. You could forget that maybe you were supposed to be doing that too. You forgot it wasn't just you being watched and judged and trying to pass some test.

I always seemed to forget that needing your mother and getting what you needed from your mother were separate but neighboring planets.

I guess I was inching and crawling my way toward Elizabeth Bennett's words about unconditional love. That it was a dangerous thing without heavy doses of mutual respect.

And I make a little vow then, to myself. To not let the backs and forths of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

One thing you can say about daughters and mothers—like it or not, they know the truth about each other.

I guess after all those years he had exhausted me. I never knew I was signing up for a battle, but I finally knew that he had won.

You've got an in-love feeling, but the relationship is damaging. When do you stop calling it love?

It makes me nervous, the way the biggest things and the smallest live together day in and day out.

They call an abusive relationship a cycle of violence, when really it's a cycle of hope. It's a cycle of misguided optimism. One day that optimism is gone, if you're lucky.

Nothing is more intimate than someone who knows your heart. Nothing is more dangerous than someone who knows your heart. Holding someone's heart like that is power.

Fury and devastation are fraternal twins.

Then again, could you go through a colonoscopy with someone and not be wedded for life?

The way two people can and everything place, find each other in a crowd, and change your life the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. In fate love some extra authority. Some destined significance." Wow, very powerful.

It's weird to have him paying attention after years of not paying attention.

That's where Ian and I fell in love—a Little League game.

As soon as you see the need to change your partner to save the relationship, it is then time to end it.

As you see the need to change your partner to save the relationship, it is then time to end it.

Sometimes you're the protagonist and someone else is the hero.

He'd sacrifice even his sanity for her. If it came down to it, he'd let her break his heart.Because he loved her.

Listening to our kids with an open heart & mind is the strongest way to build a relationship with them - especially when they're wrong.

There was no need to analyze the feelings that the people caught in the commission of the amorous act, held for each other, for it was literally written in their hands.

The motive for marriage must be eternal not just temporal.