405 quotes found
“...people cannot and do not want to live unrelated to others.”
“I'm only fifteen. I'm not sure I ever want to get married. I'm neither messing around while waiting nor looking for some "real thing". What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody to talk ...”
“But say he forgets about me or meets someone else or pretends I don't exist.I look at her and then at Trini and Raffy."Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing?" Raffy says in an irritated voice....”
“there are indestructible things that accompany the body to death as if they had been born with it. And one of them is what is created between a man and a woman who have experienced certain moments ...”
“It was darker, all she could see of him was a shadow. He was fading more and more, slipping through her hands, dead at the bottom of sleep.”
“Responsibility comes with every relationship.”
“All those wasted and squandered years when I did nothing but go around looking inside myself until I ended up alone even though I was surrounded by people. But I paid attention only to what was hap...”
“Relationships are like gardening. If you don't water the plants, they die.”
“We came together in a dance of death and so quickly was I sucked down into the vortex that when I came to the surface again I couldn't recognize the world. When I found myself loose the music had c...”
“Once again, the world seems to be less about objects than about interactive relationships.”
“Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. But that love we'd had and those selves we'd been were gone, placed in a box like old photographs ...”
“Boundaries keep people out mine served only to keep me in. ”
“Unhealthy relationships keep our self-esteem low.”
“In today's romantic climate, many people are plagued by what we will call "the upgrade problem". Singles constantly wonder whether there is a better match, an upgrade.”
“To make him important in ones life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never knows when to quit.”
“If I was to sum up over three decades of togetherness with my better-half in one word, the only one that comes to my mind is fulfilment!”
“A complete man has a regret that he cannot bear a baby; whereas it is rather ironic that a self-styled complete woman takes pride in denouncing that divine blessing. In fact, there is nothing like ...”
“But it wasn't all bad. Sometimes things wasn't all bad. He used to come home easing into bed sometimes, not too drunk. I make out like I'm asleep, 'casue it's late, and he taken three dollars out o...”
“Today, I would pick the person who made me feel warm, rather than the one who left me cold.”
“Dont use below-the-belt tactics. These include: blam- ing, interpreting, diagnosing, labeling, analyzing, preaching, moralizing, ordering, warning, interrogating, ridiculing, and lecturing. Dont pu...”
