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f674b79 "If we can't repair things with the Romans--well, the two sets of demigods have gotten along. That's why the gods kept us separate. I don't know if we could ever belong there." Percy didn't want to argue, but he couldn't let go of the hope. It felt important--not just for him, but for all the other demigods. It to be possible to belong in two different worlds at once. After all, that's what being a demigod was all about--not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus, but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature." families fitting-in percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians relationships the-heroes-of-olympus the-mark-of-athena Rick Riordan
11bcf08 With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me? relationships Elizabeth Gilbert
1918422 You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them. hate intimacy love relationships Hanif Kureishi
406a685 You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water... life relationships Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
a104a2c After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring. love relationships romance Arthur C. Clarke
54dfd03 Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval. nicole-diver opinions relationships rosemary-hoyt F. Scott Fitzgerald
62b98b9 It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships. friendship inspirational life love relationships Jonathan Anthony Burkett
cf461a1 She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be. happyquotes hope inspirational inspirationalquotes inspired instadaily instaquote lovequotes pinquotes poems poetry quote quoteoftheday quotes relationships rmdrake sadquotes sayings spokenword tattoo typewriter vsco writer writing robert m drake
32dffd8 It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle. happyquotes hope inspirational inspirationalquotes inspired instadaily instaquote lovequotes pinquotes poems poetry quote quoteoftheday quotes relationships rmdrake sadquotes sayings spokenword tattoo typewriter vsco writer writing robert m drake
806f656 It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed. breakups inspirational inspirational-love men-and-women realization relationships sex Sue Grafton
7994c48 Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you. happyquotes hope inspirational inspirationalquotes inspired instadaily instaquote lovequotes pinquotes poems poetry quote quoteoftheday quotes relationships rmdrake sadquotes sayings spokenword tattoo typewriter vsco writer writing robert m drake
71cc3b0 It was completely fifth garde and completely silly and I loved it, because he wasn't afraid to be silly. It was like kissing him first - I could do whatever I wanted and not have to worry what he'd think of me. relationships Kelley Armstrong
126e10a No people find each other more absurd than lovers love lover people relationships C.S. Lewis
3a1ef94 Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously. love media relationships Chuck Klosterman
109775e You've got an awfully kissable mouth. flapper humor kiss kissing kissing-quotes love lust relationships romance F. Scott Fitzgerald
8ea22d9 "That guys. Sideburns. You like him?" My back squirms. "You've asked me that before." "What I meant was," he says, flustered. "Your feelings haven't changed? Since you've been here?" It takes a moment to consider the question. "It's not a matter of how feel," I say at last. "I'm interested, but ... I don't know if he's still interested in me." St. Clair edges closer. "Does he still call?" "Yeah. I mean, not often. But yes." "Right. Right, well," he says, blinking. "There's your answer." anna-oliphant relationships st-clair Stephanie Perkins
2359d0c Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. flings friendship love relationships William Shakespeare
eeda5c0 They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die. life love relationships Lorrie Moore
61e1822 Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships girl gossip-girl love relationships Cecily von Ziegesar
2a5f61f "Eve: "If you ended up naked and dead with another woman, I'd do the Rumba on your corpse." Roarke: "You can't do the Rumba." Eve: "I'd take lessons first." Roarke: "You might very well. Not that you'll ever get the chance, but you'd also grieve." Eve: "Wouldn't give you the satisfaction. You cheating f-wit putz. " Roarke: "You'd weep in the dark and call my name." Eve: "Call your name alright. How are things in hell? You dickless bastard. And I'd laugh and laugh, that's how I''d call your name." Roarke: "Christ Jesus Eve, I love you." --Eve, Roarke" relationships J.D. Robb
9db08b8 If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow. relationships John Gray
dcc4274 For [erotically intelligent couples], love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. They know that they have years in which to deepen their connection, to experiment, to regress, and even to fail. They see their relationship as something alive and ongoing, not a fait accompli. It's a story that they are writing together, one with many chapters, and neither partner knows how it will end. There's always a place they haven't gone yet, always something about the other still to be discovered. love love-story marriage marriage-advice relationships romance time Esther Perel
5a98dda I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and less that. He is better or worse in these ways. It is human nature to do this--unless its your first relationship, which might be the very reason that your first relationship feels special and remains forever sacred. But the older you get, the more cynical you become, and the more complicated and convoluted the exercise is. You begin to realize that nothing is perfect, that there are trade-offs and sacrifices. The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in the present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go. relationships sacrifice Emily Giffin
5eaeb11 "All's fair in love and war," said Ron brightly, "and this is a bit of both." love relationships J.K. Rowling
e383aba "Sure am glad I'm not royalty," I muttered. "I wouldn't want to have to bump uglies with someone I can't stand. On a regular basis. And no one else." "Ow!" I exclaimed, trying to yank my fingers from Trent but finding them caught. Then I colored, realizing what I'd said. "Oh... sorry," I stammered, meaning it. "That was insensitive." Trent's frown turned into a sly smirk. "Bump uglies?" he said, eyes on the table behind me. "You are a font of gutter slang, Rachel. We must do this again." relationships Kim Harrison
1add014 You cold or something?' he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: 'It's a chill, it's nothing'; and then, pushing a little away: 'Say you love me.' I said it.' No, oh no. You haven't. I was listening. And you never do.' Well, give me time.' Please.' He sat up and glanced at a clock across the room. It was after five. Then decisively he pulled off his windbreaker and began to unlace his shoes. Aren't you going to, Clyde?' He grinned back at her. 'Yeah, I'm going to.' I don't mean that; and what's more, I don't like it: you sound as though you were talking to a whore.' Come off it, honey. You didn't drag me up here to tell you about love.' You disgust me,' she said. Listen to her! She's sore!' A silence followed that circulated like an aggrieved bird. Clyde said, 'You want to hit me, huh? I kind of like you when you're sore: that's the kind of girl you are,' which made Grady light in his arms when he lifted and kissed her. 'You still want me to say it?' Her head slumped on his shoulder. 'Because I will,' he said, fooling his fingers in her hair. 'Take off your clothes--and I'll tell it to you good. relationships romance sex Truman Capote
11f61e1 [Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. captivity freedom marriage married-life matrimony relationships single Michel de Montaigne
28bb841 Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself. relationships Gary Chapman
8a0eb5f dealing with any man means dealing with multiple personalities. relationships Rick Riordan
a2b7544 It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about. relationships Orson Scott Card
f5aa763 He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always made Laurel's heart mush. Serious grip, cheek to the hair, eyes closed, just a little sway. Del's hugs mattered, she thought, and made him impossible to resist. hugs love relationships Nora Roberts
08724c9 Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry. relationships Ann Patchett
ee9c809 Please don't hate you??!! I hate that I love you. Loving you made me waste a year of my life. Loving you made me be passionate about nothing but you. Loving you made me take risks I never would have otherwise. Loving you made me give it up to you. Loving you made me neglect my parents and Amy. Loving you made me not care that my grandma just died. Loving you made me turn out bitter and hopeless like her. Loving you made me hate myself for being dumped by you. Loving you made me deluded, irrational, inconsiderate, and a liar. And because I love you, you're always going to haunt me. boyfriend love relationships teenage-love Daria Snadowsky
bee8203 What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspaper and realize that no one loves you, and no one burns for you. relationships settling solitude Charles Baxter
de621bb "Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go." family people philosophy relationships Norman Maclean
4ddc86a As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe. human life machines relationships Kurt Vonnegut
031b8ca Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different. love relationships Gary Chapman
6200f55 ...he prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for what had gone and would go and could be loved in no other way. When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too often refuse to acknowledge in one another, and out of this Saeed felt it might be possible, in the face of death, to believe in humanity's potential for building a better world, so he prayed as a lament, as a consolation, and as a hope.... exit-west family grief loss mohsin-hamid mourning prayer relationships Mohsin Hamid
48abed4 A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart. family relationships Keri Hulme
abb2e37 ...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week. missing relationships Robin McKinley
902ced6 "Alright, good night," he said, his words a little slurred. "But before I pass out, I want you to know that you're the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat." funny hot humor love relationships sexy Erin McCarthy
20e7102 You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering. gay-rights love relationships tolerance Jodi Picoult
27b28fe Love, he realized, was like the daggers he made in his forge: When you first got one it was shiny and new and the blade glinted bright in the light. Holding it against your palm, you were full of optimism for what it would be like in the field, and you couldn't wait to try it out. Except those first couple of nights out were usually awkward as you got used to it and it got used to you. Over time, the steel lost its brand-new gleam, and the hilt became stained, and maybe you nicked the shit out of the thing a couple of times. What you got in return, however, saved your life: Once the pair of you were well acquainted, it became such a part of you that it was an extension of your own arm. It protected you and gave you a means to protect your brothers; it provided you with the confidnece and the power to face whatever came out of the night; and wherever you went, it stayed with you, right over your heart, always there when you needed it. You had to keep the blade up, however. And rewrap the hilt from time to time. And double-check the weight. Funny...all of that was when it came to weapons. Why hadn't it dawned on him that matings were the same? (From the thoughts of Vishous) love marriage relationships romance J.R. Ward
f3e4d22 When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff. relationships P. G. Wodehouse
f7d01d4 It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love, or was I just desperate? illusion love relationships true-love wisdom Nora Ephron
ccc9586 Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated. life love relationships Charlaine Harris
c095fa1 Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it. gender-stereotypes love men-and-women power relationships Neil Strauss
7e49b76 Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having. love relationships Sarah Mlynowski
f421313 I'm in a foreign land, trying to explain myself, trying to make myself known. Because isn't that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn't that the simple magic phrase? relationships Gillian Flynn
e6769d4 Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known. desire psychology relationships sexuality spirituality tantra Mark Epstein
e1fb90c The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life relationships Orhan Pamuk
ac7ba44 "I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they'd been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for." -- dating inspirational love men principle purity relationships women Elisabeth Elliot
b51c8dc No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can. moms relationships Laurie Halse Anderson
9ceeb0d I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple. love relationships Ai Yazawa
045c518 There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief. drinking liquor relationships relief Graham Greene
89c3b13 You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves. people relationships John Green
2d60aef He looked at her and tried to discover behind her lascivious expression the familiar features that he loved tenderly. It was as if he were looking at two images through the same lens, at two images superimposed one on the other with one showing through the other. These two images showing through each other were telling him that was in the girl, that her soul was terrifyingly amorphous, that it held faithfulness and unfaithfulness, treachery and innocence, flirtatiousness and chastity. This disorderly jumble seemed disgusting to him, like the variety to be found in a pile of garbage. Both images continued to show through each other, and the young man understood that the girl differed only on the surface from other women, but deep down was the same as they: full of all possible thoughts, feelings, and vices, which justified all his secret misgivings and fits of jealousy. The impression that certain outlines delineated her as an individual was only a delusion to which the other person, the one who was looking, was subject--namely himself. It seemed to him that the girl he loved was a creation of his desire, his thoughts, and his faith and that the girl now standing in front of him was hopelessly other, hopelessly alien, hopelessly . He hated her. relationships sex women Milan Kundera
024177f A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *are* like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for potential partners, a 2 or 3 page multiple-choice document that covered all the music/film/TV/book bases. It was intended: a) to dispense with awkward conversation, and b) to prevent a chap from leaping into bed with someone who might, at a later date, turn out to have every Julio Iglesias record ever made. It amused us at the time... But there was an important & essential truth contained in the idea, and the truth was that these things matter, and it's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently, or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party. movies music relationships Nick Hornby
0b6f200 Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate. love marriage relationships self-knowledge truth Alain de Botton
07082f9 "Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn't come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words "bliss," "passion," and "rapture" - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books." marriage relationships Gustave Flaubert
703ef35 I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language. i-m-sorry language relationships sorry Beth Revis
2545e0b "And since I'm marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you're sleeping with Laurel--" "I'm not sleeping with Laurel. We're dating." "Right, and the two of you are just going to hold hands, admire the moon, and sing camp songs." "For a while. Minus the singing." friends funny humor relationships Nora Roberts
f5ab896 It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds. relationships Jonathan Franzen
a362e7a The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You've never learned to communicate your feelings to a man. You don't even want to communicate in a relationship. You think that if you open up to love, you'll lose your independence or your self-expression or creativity or whatever you call all that passionate, wonderful stuff that makes you feel alive inside. creativity love relationships Tom Robbins
9d4e82e Then, what's the matter?' I wonder, in fact, how many times I have said that or something equal to it to a woman passing palely through my life. Love is what this means, of course. Or at least, second best: surrender. Or at the least, take some time regaling me with why you won't, and maybe by the end you will. men relationships surrender women Richard Ford
759e68e I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace quantum-of-solace relationships Ian Fleming
7ef7ff4 I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the relationship data in a computer and have it spit out a definitive answer. You can't quantify love, and if you try, you wind up focusing on misleading factors. relationships Emily Giffin
8d40b9c Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest. faith relationships Erin McCarthy
e95589d Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along. relationships Margaret Atwood
c021b32 Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now. endings goodbyes growing-up relationships understanding Emily Giffin
c9c01c3 He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life. relationships J.K. Rowling
960b6f2 Soul mates. They really call themselves that, which makes sense, because I guess they are ... They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride though life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly. Making it look easy. happiness ideal-love ideal-lover jellyfish love marriage other-half peace perfection relationships soul-mate soul-mates true-love unconditional-love Gillian Flynn
33e65ab I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can't see what everyone else sees in me. I don't feel beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I never saw beautiful. For this to happen to someone like me, it's devastating, Jonas. I don't want you to think it's vanity, it isn't. I can't see me and I need to be able to do that. I need to find out what I'm like and what I want. I have to be comfortable in my own skin before I can be in a relationship the way you want. love-yourself relationships self-esteem Christine Feehan
f2311a4 LADY BRACKNELL To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable. engagement humor marriage relationships Oscar Wilde
3f2bd41 Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when to give it up; what was truly important enough to fight over, and what was just you being pissy. You learned each other's hot buttons, the places that hurt, or angered, when you pressed them. Love makes you learn where all the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them, or how to set them off. relationships Laurell K. Hamilton
770e831 I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover. relationships Tom Stoppard
12b7d7d "Why, you are a man of heart!" "Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time." relationships time Jules Verne
108a015 The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings. bullying change change-for-worse criticism emotional-turmoil failure flaws hatred heartbreak heartless hurtful i-miss-who-you-were loss love marriage missing-who-someone-was nothing puppeteer relationships scary strangers turmoil Gillian Flynn
31b9c0c It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone. hope love relationships Dennis Lehane
624890d There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities dishonesty hypocrisy misanthropy people relationships society stereotypes words Molière
38fa65d schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept that the family is the primary school for love. those of us who do not learn how to love among family are expected to experience love in romantic relationships. however this love often eludes us. relationships bell hooks
7edfd83 "The vast desire and capacity a woman has for intimate relationships tells us of God's vast desire and capacity for intimate relationships. In fact, this may be The most important thing we ever learn about God--the He yearns for relationship with us. "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God" (John 17:3). The whole story of the Bible is a love story between God and His people. He yearns for us. He cares. He has a tender heart." love relationships Stasi Eldredge
87d6734 No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think. love relationships Sherwood Smith
d1f6f12 That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste. relationships John Green
5c59454 Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals. They are looking for a marriage partner who will 'fulfill their emotional, sexual, and spiritual desires.' And that creates an extreme idealism that in turn leads to a deep pessimism that you will ever find the right person to marry. love marriage relationships Timothy Keller
bee5f61 You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship. life love relationships Mitch Albom
9ea4b99 I've crossed paths since with men like him. I wish I could say differently. But I have. And what I have learned is that you dig a little and you find they're all the same, give or take. Some are more polished, granted. They may come with a little bit of charm-- Or a lot -- and that can fool you. But really they're all unhappy little boys sloshing around in their own rage. They feel wronged. They haven't been given their due. No one loved them enough. Of course they expect you to love them. They want to be held, rocked, reassured. But it's a mistake to give it to them. They can't accept it. They can't accept the very thing they're needing. They end up hating you for it. And it never ends because they can't hate you enough. It never ends-- the misery, the apologies, the promises, the reneging, the wretchedness of it all. My first husband was like that. men relationships Khaled Hosseini
f91051b people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well. relationships Stephen R. Covey
4856778 You don't know the difference between truth and make-believe. You never stop acting. It's second nature to you. You act when there's a party here. You act to the servants, you act to father, you act to me. To me you act the part of the fond, indulgent, celebrated mother. You don't exist, you're only the innumerable parts you've played. I've often wondered if there was ever a you or if you were never anything more than a vehicle for all these other people that you've pretended to be. When I've seen you go into an empty room I've sometimes wanted to open the door suddenly, but I've been afraid to in case I found nobody there. relationships W. Somerset Maugham
9bb050c That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored. importance-of-interconnectedness relationships Howard Zinn
0e24200 When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten. relationships shepherd sport wolf Robert M. Pirsig
b061f5f Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion--it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble. relationships unrequited-love Mercedes Lackey
16dad1d You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more. nick-hornby relationships Nick Hornby
7c5bd35 You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. friendship inspirational relationships J.K. Rowling
7d03d0a You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended. change nick-hornby relationships Nick Hornby
7c4119d Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup. Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy. But take off your hat and observe a moment's silence for the legions of unknown tubes of foundation, mascara, eyeliner, blusher and lipstick who died that it might all have been possible. But who died in vain. makeup relationships Marian Keyes
8c5a219 The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way. relationships Emily Giffin
8538084 The fights are always the same relationships Stephen Chbosky
4829a7a Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free. love relationships Geoffrey Chaucer
f856dab You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. fathers generations knowledge relationships sons Marilynne Robinson
5b2be43 If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one. relationships Tamora Pierce
b9e7b8d I guess it can't be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they're making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there love relationships James Baldwin
d61d23b The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool. family relationships Jodi Picoult
baaba2e We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing. lonliness relationships solitude Gore Vidal
db89ba9 "Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement." It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live." patience relationships Orson Scott Card
5567019 I just wouldn't want to hook up with a guy unless I really, really like him, and in my experience all boys can be classified as either assholes or bores, unless they're both. Maybe it's a blessing, because the last thing I need is relationship drama to sidetrack me from my grades. boyfriend love relationships teenage-love Daria Snadowsky
1903444 What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I end up wearing khakis because of that fucking ad? khakis relationships Bret Easton Ellis
e3b66de Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement. relationships Jerry Spinelli
55b844e I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game. relationships Emily Giffin
5ac646d Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate. relationships technology Henry David Thoreau
8c5ff2d And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon...at lease some of the time relationships Meg Cabot
c28686c "Jump, if you want to, 'cause I'll catch you, girl. I'll catch you "fore you fall. Go as far inside as you need to, I'll hold your ankles. Make sure you get back out. I'm not saying this because I need a place to stay. That's the last thing I need. I told you, I'm a walking man, but I been heading in this direction for seven years. Walking all around this place. Upstate, downstate, east, west; I been in territory ain't got no name, never staying nowhere long. But when I got here and sat out there on the porch, waiting for you, well, I knew it wasn't the place I was heading toward; it was you. We can make a life, girl. A life." love relationships Toni Morrison
1471625 ~Do you like him much? ~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults. ~Is he? ~All boys are. ~More than girls? ~Very likely. Wise people say it is folly to think anyboy perfect, and as to likes and diskiles, we should be friendly to all, and worship none. girls love relationships romance Charlotte Brontë
2b0e63d I never lie -- I am a blatantly truthful person about almost everything. My addiction (or disease as some call it) always lies. I have had very good relationships, but the addict in me always fucked them up. I fall in love quickly, it's a high that rivals drugs for a while. I am monogamous, but I always cheated with depression before the relationship fell apart. Addicts need best friends, healthy people need healthy relationships. depression relationships Emma Forrest
203304a "He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection." relationships E.M. Forster
e16471f I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with tears. 'You would sap all the energy and all the joy from me. You would put out all the fire of my vitality.' 'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy. relationships romance romantic Mary Balogh
0ab7e72 They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox. marriage relationships Leo Tolstoy
2e900b7 The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics- as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules relationships Douglas Adams
6c43c2b The two main girlfriends he has had wanted him to support them in the manner to which they certainly weren't accustomed even though he couldn't put his flabby hands on a penny. girlfriends money relationships Kathy Acker
448dce2 There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. relationships Mitch Albom
1596266 "It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things." "Like what?" I asked. My mouth was dry. "I don't know. Like take their hands when the slow song comes up for a change. Or be the one who asks someone for a date. Or tell people what you need. Or what you want." being-confident being-in-love being-strong being-yourself how-to-get-a-girl how-to-get-a-guy nice-guy-syndrome personality relationships strength Stephen Chbosky
0a4de52 The protagonist, Amanda, discusses her sex relationship with her husband, John Paul -- As long as it's done with honesty and grace, John Paul doesn't mind if I go to bed with other men. Or with other girls, as is sometimes my fancy. What has marriage got to do with it? Marriage is not a synonym for monogamy any more than monogamy is a synonym for ideal love. To live lightly on the earth, lovers and families must be more flexible and relaxed. The ritual of sex releases its magic inside or outside the marital bond. I approach that ritual with as much humility as possible and perform it whenever it seems appropriate. As for John Paul and me, a strange spurt of semen is not going to wash our love away. relationships Tom Robbins
d9c5d4f She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance. image love relationships sex Milan Kundera
b36ffaa For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love. memories music relationships romance Jodi Picoult
831ae6b Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous. people relationships Paulo Coelho
ed7a87e It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand. relationships Aimee Bender
7e1caf5 Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes it takes the shape of aloneness. Sometimes it takes the shape of love. love relationships Jonathan Safran Foer
71f3381 "Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?" relationships torment Elizabeth Hoyt
f41fcfd But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else. lola-and-the-boy-next-door love relationships stephanie-perkins Stephanie Perkins
34996a9 Confidence could be applied like makeup. I knew that for fact. makeup-and-beauty relationships women Barbara Delinsky
2027563 Who doesn't have a friend who worships her lover with a passion that seems baffling to everyone that knows them? Before you met him for the first time, she'd talked him up like he was a cross between Indiana Jones, Barack Obama and The Doctor. When you finally meet him, he's a quiet little thing who looks like a baked bean in glasses, and actually says 'harumph' as spelt. relationships women Caitlin Moran
260f57a When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover. relationships secrets women Thomas Hardy
aed45fb Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she'd spent her hours in the dark wondering whether she'd ever liked him. Would it really have been so much worse to spend those years alone? Why did there have to be someone else in the room while she was eating, watching TV, sleeping? relationships Nick Hornby
8c7cf2c However close you get to others, you can never get inside them, even when you're inside them. limitations limits mystery relationships Ian McEwan
b7f9fe3 "I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you..." "You cannot roll with me," said the Big O, "but perhaps you can roll by yourself." relationships self-confidence Shel Silverstein
1299bed We believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity. We are looking to re-create, within our adult relationships, the very feelings we knew so well in childhood and which were rarely limited to just tenderness and care. The love most of us will have tasted early on came entwined with other, more destructive dynamics: feelings of wanting to help an adult who was out of control, of being deprived of a parent's warmth or scared of his or her anger, or of not feeling secure enough to communicate our trickier wishes. How logical, then, that we should as adults find ourselves rejecting certain candidates not because they are wrong but because they are a little too right--in the sense of seeming somehow excessively balanced, mature, understanding, and reliable--given that, in our hearts, such rightness feels foreign and unearnt. We chase after more exciting others, not in the belief that life with them will be more harmonious, but out of an unconscious sense that it will be reassuringly familiar in its patterns of frustration. familiarity love relationships Alain de Botton
ba959c3 "We Are Lovable beliefs codependency conditional-love core-beliefs isolation lovable love neglect relationships self-blame self-esteem Melody Beattie
d9826a3 I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard, school, Cassie's room, the motel, and standing in from of the sink in my mother's kitchen. It takes too much energy to gather all the bits together, so I just sit there and watch him implode. daughters relationships Laurie Halse Anderson
c685fac And I learned that sometimes when someone says something so devastatingly perfect, there isn't a need for a response. The words said it all. lux-series opal perfect relationships words Jennifer L. Armentrout
c8996a3 Because, Jack, you volunteered to be taken down into eternal torment in place of her. This is the absolute (unless I'm mistaken) that any female requires from her man. relationships women Neal Stephenson
1d06b85 They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else--the cold, and where he'd go in it--was outside, for a while anyway. everything-stuck-to-him family fighting relationships winter Raymond Carver
7f6b658 Instructions For Wayfarers They will declare: Every journey has been taken. You shall respond: I have not been to see myself. They will insist: Everything has been spoken. You shall reply: I have not had my say. They will tell you: Everything has been done. You shall reply: My way is not complete. You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard. Fear not. You are the gate - you, the gatekeeper. And you shall go through and on . . . --Alexandros Evangelou Xenopouloudakis, THIRD WISH love relationships Robert Fulghum
e21a4a8 And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives. relationships Jeanette Winterson
688167f "But have you noticed the slight curl at the end of Sam II's mouth, when he looks at you? It means that he didn't want you to name him Sam II, for one thing, and for two other things it means that he has a sawed-off in his left pants leg, and a baling hook in his right pants leg, and is ready to kill you with either of them, given the opportunity. The father is taken aback. What he usually says, in such a confrontation, is "I changed your diapers for you, little snot." This is not the right thing to say. First, it is not true (mothers change nine diapers out of ten), and second it reminds Sam II of what he is mad about. He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it, he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice." relationships Donald Barthelme
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