405 quotes found
“The best you can hope for in a relationship is to findsomeone whose flaws are the sort you dont mind. It isfutile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someonewho is capable of significant chang...”
“Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fre...”
“Share too much and someone can hurt you.”
“They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really go...”
“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.”
“He doesn't need to be reminded you're great.”
“Why does anyone stay in an unhappy relationship? Because people do. They do it all the time. And the truth is, when youre in it, when youre up to your neck in the everyday part of life with another...”
“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 Ill tell you who you are.”
“What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.”
“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. ...”
“Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.”
“Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.”
“Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another.Committed bonds (including marriage) cannot last when thi...”
“One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!”
“He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.”
“To be honest, it was pretty hard to leave. I desperately wanted to turn around, and tell him everything would be okay. That I adore him and I trust him and that I'll stand by him while he goes thro...”
“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good...”
“What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that we make each other nuts, we fight constantly and hardly ever have sex, but we can...”
“Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve.”
