405 quotes found
“Friendships are nice. So is competence.”
“Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.”
“She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.”
“I look at him with the nostalgic affection men are said to feel for their wars, their fellow veterans. I think, I once threw things at this man. I threw a glass ashtray, a fairly cheap one which di...”
“In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs”
“Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knockthem down.”
“Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.”
“I used to want you so bad, I'm so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!”
“Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.”
“When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.”
“Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?”
“He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail ...”
“I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap...”
“Bones,” I sighed. “Know something? I’m not afraid of you, but you scareme….” His outline blurred again.“You scare me, too, Kitten,” he might have replied, but I couldn’t be sure.”
“A relationship needs constant attention. It’s a living thing, not just a habit. You’ve got to keep on top of it.”
“Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.”
“You know what's lame, Pudge? I really care about her. I mean, we were hopeless. Badly matched. But still. I mean, I said I loved her... I mean, it's stupid to miss someone you didn't even get along...”
“I’ve loved him since I’ve known him, Mrs. Daniels. He just finally stopped fighting.”
“Real relationships - the kind that were supposed to last but never did - were more trouble than they were worth.”
“Fletcher was always going to be your ex-boyfriend, from the moment you met him. He's just finally caught up with where he's supposed to be.”
