405 quotes found
“There's never a reason to trust someone. If there's a reason, then it's not trust.”
“Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldnt we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a hus...”
“A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.”
“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...”
“It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel) at the center of your being, then you cant afford to sort out your love life, st...”
“What is it about men that make women so lonely?”
“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.”
“She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing about for hundreds of years, but she also k...”
“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...”
“Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will w...”
“Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times its more exhausting than lifting pianos.”
“You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don't take him at all...adjustments can't be all made on one side, darling, else...”
“She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a phantom limb. Gone but still there. And like a true phantom limb, the preponde...”
“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.”
“Friendships are nice. So is competence.”
“Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.”
“It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food a...”
“We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.”
“Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.”
