Quotes About Relationship

I have longed for one person with whom everything could be shared, but I am slowly making my peace with the knowledge that this will never happen.

Fur Person,' he decided then—not really a name at all, but a way of describing the relationship between a Gentle Cat and his true friends among the human people. For a Fur Person, he saw in his state of extreme concentration, is not just an ordinary cat. He is a cat who is also a person.

one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?

Perhaps the greatest gift we can give to another human being is detachment. Attachment, even that which imagines it is self- less, always lays some burden on the other person.

It takes a long time, all one's life, to learn to love one person well-with enough distance, with enough humility...

You should never make someone a priority who views you as an option.

I could never put my finger on her realness. She was so pretty and so quick that even when she had just awakened, her eyes full of sleep and hair tousled, I thought she looked just like the Virgin Mary. But what mother and daughter understand each other, or even have the sympathy for each other's lack of understanding? Mother

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications.

The man who is a bigot, is the worst thing God has got, except his match, his woman, who really is Ms. Begot.

It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include preachers, musicians, and blues singers).

we had been each other's home and center for seventeen years. He could die if he wanted to and go off to wherever dead folks go, but I, I would be left without a home.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option

A textured guilt was my familiar, my bedmate to whom I had turned my back.

To her, each shot seemed to impel him forward, the reverse of her desire; and for him, the closer he got to her, the more she shot him.

But what mother and daughter understand each other, or even have the sympathy for each other's lack of understanding?

I left the room because, and only because, we had said all we could say. The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no crafts to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness.

Said to Mairin; There's little decency to good loving Maddie said. If 'tis decent, it isn't much fun!

Never run out on me again. No matter what happens, you stay and fight. Yell at me, argue, throw something at me, whatever you want to do, but never walk away from me. Promise me that.

My lady, I don't simply care for her. I love her. She is my entire life. Without her, I am nothing. I have nothing.

Was he demanding? Hell yes, but he wasn't selfish. He took. He was ruthless in his demands. But he gave her back so much. Not just materially but emotionally, though he'd likely deny he did any such thing.

Seeing you happy is the best gift I could ever ask for.

Whoa, wait a minute, Coletrane. Are you proposing to me?" "Well I would if you'd let me finish," he grumbled.

Why do you even want to be involved with me? she asked. I'm a complete mess. I don't have my head on straight. I'm a master at fucking up everything that's good in my life. But you're my mess. Cole said quietly. I don't need you to be perfect. I just need you to be you because that's who I care about.

Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt her or pleasure her in a way no other man could. For the first time, he was uncomfortable with the idea of having complete power over her