Relationships Quotes

Love and honesty don’t mix.

~ Miguel Syjuco

Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an external threat.

~ Laura Pedersen

I had a dream about you last night.. You were balancing ten tiny footballs on your nose while dancing with a turquoise unicorn.

~ Amy Sommers

Trust in someone means that we no longer have to protect ourselves. We believe we will not be hurt or harmed by the other, at least not deliberately. We trust his or her good intentions, though we know we might be hurt by the way circumstances play out between us. We might say that hurt happens; it’s a given of life. Harm is inflicted; it’s a choice some people make.

~ David Richo

We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.

~ Hjalmar Söderberg

She knew how breakups went from hearing other girls complain about them. First the pulling away, the gradual refusal to return notes or phone calls. The vague messages saying nothing was wrong, that the other person just needed a little space. Then the speech about how It's not you, it's me. Then the crying part.She'd never thought any of that would apply to her and Jace. What they had wasn't ordinary, or subject to the ordinary rules of relationships and breakups. They belonged to each other totally, and always will, and that was that.But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everyone they'd thought was real shattered apart.

~ Cassandra Clare

One of the most difficult things he'd ever done was turn away and leave her standing in the shadows.

~ Rachel Gibson

I'm terrified of getting involved with someone who disappoints me or leaves me empty and alone. I'm terrified of rejection, so I set my expectations so high that they can never be met, and I dig around with a magnifying glass looking for flaws in very person I date. There's always a flaw to exploit, and I'll find it so I never have to get too close.

~ Rachel Machacek

People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight. -

~ Deb Caletti

Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knockthem down.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Be careful whom you choose to love. This decision will impact your future life and happiness in ways you cannot yet imagine.

~ Toni Coleman

But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get updates from, to inform of a comic discovery, to imagine while dancing in a lonely basement, and to return to, finally, when the music stopped.

~ Marina Keegan

Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you'll be on track for the same future.

~ Angelina Jolie

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.

~ Myles Munroe

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.

~ Charlaine Harris

Sometimes you met someone that changed the pattern, who wormed their way past the cracks in your heart, caulked them up, sealed themselves in, and stayed there. Sometimes they did it by insisting you meet them at every step, as Jamie had done to me.

~ Diana Peterfreund

I loved you at your worst, and you were always at your worst. Nothing could stop me. Not even you.

~ Denice Envall

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.

~ Emily Giffin

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

~ Dave Barry

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Meg Cabot

Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.

~ Sarah Dessen

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

~ Lawrence Hill

Sometimes the door closes on a relationship, not because we failed but because something bigger than us says this no longer fits our life. So, lock the door, shed a tear, turn around and look for the new door that's opened. It's a sign that you're no longer that person you were, it's time to change into who you are. It's going to be okay.

~ Lee Goff

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins.

~ Joss Whedon

Then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

~ Mary Ann Shaffer

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.

~ Charles Baxter

Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair.

~ Melanie Benjamin

Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.

~ Rob Liano

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 w

~ J.r. Ward

Ordinarily, I am the person who falls in love quickly and somewhat inappropriately and then goes on to destroy what is a good thing. That's always been my style. So, you know: I get it. And I feel right now the way I imagine all those guys felt with me. And I have to say, for the first time in my life, I feel something approaching compassion for them.

~ Sarah Dunn

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.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Miscommunication is endless.

~ J.p. Rattie

Tina leans forward and asks quietly, 'Do you? You know? Love her?'Squeezing Nat’s knee again, I reply, 'She’s teachin’ me how.

~ Belle Aurora

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.

~ Nora Roberts

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)

~ Julia Cameron