Quotes About Relationship

But belonging to someone and giving yourself to them were two very different things. One formed out of need, a tidy arrangement mutually beneficial to both parties, while the other involved laying yourself bare—something she'd never been very good at.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

How about this—Romeo, you lean in several times as if you want to kiss Juliet, but Juliet, you always pull back. Can

But you don't know what I want, do you. You formed an idea of who I am and What I do, and you've woven that idea in your life. You may listen to my words, but you don't hear my thoughts. You don't hear my needs. You don't see me. You haven't seen me in years.

Being friends is different from being lovers. It's a sea change.

The question was whether James would love me if I was someone else.

Annie took his hand. She kissed it and held it to the pulse point at her neck. She didn't speak. Words would have been an intrusion on what was happening between them. She could almost see the tiny ends of the soul-wire that had been severed in October, winding around each other, knotting, connecting in a way that she doubted would ever again come undone. That was how she wanted it.

And then—the kicker—they were cousins. Casey suspected she would forever feel protective of Meg, and that wasn't a bad thing.

You were selfish. It was all about Emily. You hung around only as long as it suited you, then you ran. Amelia's words haunted me, because they so related to what was happening right now with my marriage and my job. As revived as I had felt leaving the cats, I was suddenly

Like it was different up here with him now. Less solitary.More complete.The freedom to be and the freedom to enjoy.

OLIVIA DIDN'T WANT TO SEE SIMON. She didn't know how to deal with what she felt. It was raw physical attraction with no emotional link, and it was totally wrong at

wanting her parents' approval, needing to think she was making them proud. Parents held a remarkable power over their children. It didn't matter how old those children grew, or how distant in their everyday lives. They received messages from their parents from the moment of birth. Those messages were nearly as deeply etched on the psyche as hair, eyes, and height in the genes.

you'd think that after eighteen years—twenty-one years, if you count the three we were together

I was just about to call out to him when a woman followed him out of the townhouse. She was carrying a little boy. As I stood there watching, my father took the little boy from her and held him. He wrapped his other arm around the woman.

He had given Sarah this robe three birthdays ago. It was one of the few gifts he had given her that she actually used. He

Silence had pounded a nail in the coffin of my marriage. But communication was key.

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

absolutely no factual information whatsoever." JW would admit that his newly discovered grandson, Morgan Holbrook,

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Living alone provides the guardrails of friends and inner autonomy as insurance against losing oneself in that first delirium of infatuation and prematurely surrendering to a relationship you might later regret.

When we live alone time and freedom are at the service of our muse in a way that artists in a relationship might envy.

ten years since he'd seen Sara, and

Kayla Sheridan, the one who married

she'd run away, she'd always given him everything