Quotes About Relationship

And no, he does not want to meet again, in a year—when we part, it is with a dry bow and Good-bye.

seeking how to accept him as he was, under the law that he could not speak—and when I shrieked against the law he shrinked down into its absolute, he rose from its departure gate.

I think he had come, in private, to feel he was dying, with me

In the old photo, we are sitting, my sister upright, like a falls—her bridalveil spine, the ferro plumbline of her hair—and I, I hunched over, tongue sticking out, jaws working like a pair of kindergarten scissors.

next to some people something walks, like a starveling, sometimes for a lifetime.

Then the drawing on the label of our favorite red wine looks like my husband, casting himself off a cliff in his fervor to get free of me.

I lived alongside him, in his hush and reserve

You're just afraid," I flung at him. "Of what would happen to you and your life at court if you were to carry Elisandra away. Of what your father would say. Of what Bryan would do to you." Now he, too, looked angry. "I am afraid of many things, but those are not the fears that keep me from action," he said. I turned my back on him. "Then I don't understand you," I said. I heard the door open. "No," he said, "and you never have.

There is nothing but heartache for a coru woman and a hunti man," she said, deliberately contrary. "He cannot control her and she cannot change him." "He never fails her and she always moves him," Darien corrected. "She can trust his strength, and he can be lifted by her joy.

You do not decide first if you want to live in a village or a court. You decide if that is the man you want to live with, and then you say yes or no.

And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me." It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to permit the spinning of the earth. What choice did he have? Even if he left her, she would be camped in his heart, an insistent and willful presence. She would match her strides to his on any journey he ever took; she would lie beside him on any bed. Amalie, he said, "that's the easiest promise I've ever had to make.

If love makes you sad, you acquire a little depth, a little compassion. If it makes you happy, you learn how to be joyous. Every relationship should color your soul to a certain degree, don't you think? Every friendship, every love affair - each one should build up the chambers of your heart the way a sea creature builds the chamber of his shell.

But I am king. And the well-being of my kingdom depends on my sound judgment and clear head. And those things depend on my state of happiness. And I have known for a long time that my state of happiness depends on you.

I realized a long time ago, with a certain amazement, that no mattter how important something is in your life, no matter how huge it is, how much space it takes up in your heart and in your thoughts, unless you mention it to other people, they have no idea it exists.

I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.

I had to meet my mother as a person, separate from my childhood experiences and judgements of her, and know her from an adult perspective.

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.

Cooper would also, inadvertently, bestow something on Joan. At home, he adored his mother and used to call her "Mommie Dearest." Inspired, Crawford would soon confer the title on herself.

Weekly church attendance alone lowers the divorce rate significantly—roughly 25 to 50 percent, depending on the study.

I found that one of the main reasons happy couples are so happy is because they always try to assume that their spouses have good intentions toward them.

choosing to trust, appreciate, admire, believe in, and honor him.

People assume that emotions are what shape behavior, but this is not necessarily true. The relationship is reciprocal; behavior often shapes how we feel about things.

God's design for a godly marriage is wondrous.