Quotes About Relationship

But teaching a lesson isn't a part of friendship.

What was the purpose of being wrapped like a present if you had no feelings for the person you were being given to?

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

Lying next to her, looking at her face in the moonlight, feeling the delicate weight of her small hand on my cheek, listening to her breathing deepen, I wondered how could I make her love me the way I longed to be loved.

How different it is with friendship. No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice.

Miss Zhao may be his mother by birth, but Respectful Lady not only is his ritual mother but has formally adopted him as her son.

Maybe that's what we're all like with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

Every couple starts off loving each other, don't they? It's how a relationship ends that really defines its nature.

But there was something more true, more solid about loving someone through change.

The years grew over that embrace like a vine.

She could push inside or walk away. She could force a conversation, which might turn into a fight. Or just let him come to her when he was ready. She hesitated a moment, conflicted. Then she opted for the latter, moving quietly down the stairs, feeling that strange loneliness again. Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.

Daily, she forgave his flaws, just as she knew he forgave hers. Maybe that alone was the foundation of a good marriage, an endless willingness to forgive and to love in spite of ourselves, an ability to ride the highs and endure the lows, the decision to always go home. She

A relationship can push us into having to confront certain areas of life, even if natally we are neither predisposed nor well equipped to cope in that area.

True kinship has naught to do with blood ties, however strong they be. I think we are all kin, brothers and sisters one to the other, all children of all parents.

What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?

When you care about someone and give them something special. Something that they treasire. That's a gift.

Henrik, you need a wife," Mama scolded him. Uncle Henrik laughed and joined Mama on the steps near the kitchen door. "Why do I need a wife, when I have a sister?

Now he understood about animals; and in the moment that the horse turned from the stream and nudged Jonas's shoulder affectionately with its head, he perceived the bonds between animal and human.

Put your hands on me," he directed, aware that in such anguish The Giver might need reminding. The hands came, and the pain came with them and through them.

words from the Bible: Where you go, I will go. Your people will be my people.

Watashi-no tomodachi des'. Greetings, my friend.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

But when he's cut, I bleed.

I seem to have accidentally got married, but it's only temporary.