Quotes About Relationship

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.

How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.

You have named him, not I.

I never use the word 'sex' in my novels - that is not what romance is about. It's about love and emotion. All my stories were different but they all had a happy ending - the perfect finish to any romance.

A good wife would have sorted him out and put him on the right road..." There comes that right road again. I wonder where it is? Imogen thought

Why did people get married seeking a way out of loneliness? There was nothing more lonelier than two married people in a room together. - p.126

Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion.

I am not at all the sort of girl he would normally go out with. But maybe now there is not so much choice—well, anyway. We shall see.

What does a row matter? Anything's better than deceiving each other. If a relationship can't stand up to the truth, then what sort of relationship is it? Anyway—' agitatedly, Meta twisted a length of scarf round her hand—'it doesn't matter any more.

When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them.

True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward.

From doing to listening in the end, the most important thing is not to do things for people who are poor and in distress, but to enter into relationship with them, to be with them and help them find confidence in themselves and discover their own gifts. . . . The promise of Jesus is to help us discover that the poor are a source of life and not just objects of our charity.

That is the fundamental question; how to trust that she has a heart and that she can, little by little, receive love, be transformed by love, and then give love.

Growth will come as we come closer to people who are different from us and as we learn to welcome and listen even to those who trigger off our pain.

We will only stay in community if we have gone through the passage from choosing community to knowing that we have been chosen for community.

In a relationship of communion, you are you and I am I; I have my identity and you have yours. I must be myself and you must be yourself. We are called to grow together, each one becoming more fully himself or herself. Communion, in fact, gives the freedom to grow. It is not possessiveness. It entails a deep listening to others, helping them to become more fully themselves.

Perhaps when two people are exactly in accord, and always happy when together and lonely when apart, they ought not to let anything in the world stand between them.

We belong to each other now really and truly, no make-believe. Doesn't it seem queer for me to belong to someone at last? It seems very, very sweet. And I shall never let you be sorry for a single instant. Yours, for ever and ever, Judy

see marriage as a man must, a good, sensible workaday institution; but awfully curbing to one's liberty. Somehow, after you're married forever, life has lost its feeling of adventure. There aren't any romantic possibilities waiting to surprise you around each corner.

it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!

Just such a letter as you would write to your parents if they were living. 'These

but you won't mind, will you, if I tell you that I have a very much more special feeling for another man? You can probably guess without much trouble who he is. I suspect that my letters have been very full of Master Jervie for a very long time. I

Dear Daddy, Do you observe the postmark?

Anyway, that's the way I feel—and I've refused to marry him. I