405 quotes found
“Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the ...”
“Maybe its like you said before, all of us being cracked open. Like each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And then things happen - these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, o...”
“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a...”
“Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.”
“Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.”
“Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd ever wanted to hurt any girl. In fact, he wasn't sure he had ever wanted to hurt a girl before. Usua...”
“People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.”
“Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.”
“Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.”
“I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. ...”
“One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!”
“He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.”
“Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve.”
“Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a hu...”
“Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep...”
“There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.”
“I never tell my boyfriend that I'm busy when I'm not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don't agree with me. So it's always okay, it's always all right. In my opinio...”
“Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.”
“A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.”
“It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.”
