Relationships Quotes

Depending on the strength of the relationship, level of communication and one’s tolerance for discord, many people are able to get past normal skirmishes unscathed.

~ Carlos Wallace

I watched you storm towards the restaurant door. It was a chilly December morning and the birds sitting on the high wires in the neighborhood refused to fly any longer.

~ Malak El Halabi

There was warmth in his large piercing brown eyes. The kind of warmth that tucks a child into bed. The same kind of warmth that dries your wet hair on a rainy December afternoon.

~ Malak El Halabi

My name is Jasmine Lewis, and this is my story. It’s a cautionary tale about money, sex, and power, but I guess those words are redundant. Money is always about sex and power. And sex is always about power. And why have power if you can’t have sex and money?But anyway, this is a story about money, sex, and power. This is the story of The Sugar Baby Club.

~ Teresa Lo

I want to be the thought that takes your mind off the road and your hand off the steering wheel.

~ Malak El Halabi

Our mornings were never rise and shine. They were rise and fight. They were loud and ravaging. They were heavy and unnerving, like the after-math of a war, with unresolved territorial disputes. They were never serene, but they were beautiful. More beautiful than the smile you wear when you step out of the shower, more tempting than the sight of you brewing coffee from across the kitchen bar, more promising than a glorious victory, bigger than all our tumultuous past. Bigger than you. Bigger than I.

~ Malak El Halabi

-Do you want me to leave?-Yes-Do you want me to stay?-Yes-Do you love me?-Yes-Do you want me?-No-Then leave me-I can't-Then stay with me-I can't, I can't, I can't*Equation of a fucked up relationship

~ Malak El Halabi

When relationship is gone, the strength for life is gone and there is no more energy to live

~ Sunday Adelaja

Eating your own heart simply to keep the strangers from tasting: a suicide.

~ Erica Alex

Don’t tell me what I want to hear. Tell me the truth. It may hurt, but it definitely won’t hurt more than the feeling that I was told something out of pity, not out of honesty. If you mean it, say it. If you don’t, keep your words until the right person is standing in front of you. If words are said too many times, they become cheap, and I only deserve to hear what is valuable

~ Najwa Zebian

There is strength in forgiveness.

~ Ellen Hopkins

You, too, were supposed to be a one-night stand. A quick fix. A conquest. A ten-line poem in my grand anthology of lovers.But you altered the narrative, you marked your territory on my timeline o that as I look back, I find I can neatly divide my more recent past into two unequal halves: before you and after.

~ Rosalyn D'mello

Honour the way a stranger can make sense in your world. Most people have been around for years without shaking our core & then one small instant in time, we cross paths with that one person who before them we didn't know what we were exactly looking for. Over 6 billion people I share this planet with and I've only felt that soul shaking, jaw dropping connection 4 times. Believe me when I say it's rare and you definitely owe it to yourself to honour it.

~ Nikki Rowe

Real relationships happen in person not through a device.

~ Staci A. Welch-Bartley

Stop giving the best part of you to those unworthy of that gift.

~ Carlos Wallace

It was strange, because she always felt that she hid herself from Erika, that she was more 'herself' with her 'true' friends, where the friendship flowed in an ordinary, uncomplicated, grown-up fashion (emails, phone calls, drinks, dinners, banter and jokes that everyone got), but right now it felt like none of those friends knew her the raw, ugly, childish, basic way that Erika did.

~ Liane Moriarty

I wish not to tell you how I feel,I choose silence so that you leave,Kiss me goodbye and set me free...

~ Sanhita Baruah

Some relationships require you have a big appetite. Chances are, at some point, you may have to swallow your pride, eat your words, lick your wounds, and stomach a lot of nonsense. While a little humble pie never hurt anyone you do have control over how much of this menu you get served and can always decide when you've had your fill.

~ Carlos Wallace

The right, real and good connection between things produces the right, real and good things.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We make the journey back to extraordinary love much more difficult for ourselves when we jump back in too quickly. It creates emotional chaos instead of the escape from pain we were hoping for.

~ Staci A. Welch-Bartley

I wish for you the wisdom to realize that you can let go of a past relationship without letting go of the lessons it taught you.

~ Steve Maraboli

I feel the ground slipping under my feet, and just as I am about to fall off the precipice, you draw out a rope and pull me into the safety net of your embrace. That's the thing - I can never trust you to rescue me, and yet you do. Unfailingly.

~ Rosalyn D'mello

...people cannot and do not want to live unrelated to others.

~ Herman L Glaess

Keep a man on a rope that's short enough to trip him without choking him.

~ Jenna Alatari

Toxic' was actually an accurate description of the feelings Clementine had so often felt in Erika's presence: the intense aggravation she had to work so hard to resist and conceal, the disappointment with herself, because Erika wasn't evil or cruel or stupid, she was simply annoying, and Clementine's response to her annoyingness was so completely disporportionate, it embarassed and confounded her. Erika loved Clementine. She'd do anything for her. So why did she inflame Clementine so? It was like she was allergic to her.

~ Liane Moriarty

Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.

~ Dashanne Stokes

I'm only fifteen. I'm not sure I ever want to get married. I'm neither messing around while waiting nor looking for some real thing. What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody to talk about books, who would be my friend, and why couldn't we have sex as well if we wanted to? (And used contraception.) I'm not looking for romance. Lord Peter and Harriet would seem a pretty good model to me. I wonder if Wim has read Sayers?

~ Jo Walton

But say he forgets about me or meets someone else or pretends I don't exist.I look at her and then at Trini and Raffy.Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing? Raffy says in an irritated voice. It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he realises that he's made a mistakeTeresa looks hopeful.It's not as if men haven't gone to war for dumber reasons Trini adds.

~ Melina Marchetta

I fell on my feet and found my bearings because of these. I could talk to them. They listened and answered, for or against, but always weighing what they had heard, unlike my mother, who used language for manipulation, not to express an opinion or state a fact. What sounded like a fact might be a lie, and every opinion was tailored for the moment.

~ Ruth Klüger

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, I want to know why!

~ Shannon L. Alder

3 Types of People You Will Encounter. Those who:1) Promise and Deliver,2) Under-promise and Over-deliver,3) Over-promise and Under-deliver.

~ Izey Victoria Odiase

When I no longer have your heartI will not request your bodyyour presenceor even your polite conversation.I will go away to a far countryseparated from you by the sea— on which I cannot walk —and refrain even from sendinglettersdescribing my pain.

~ Alice Walker

You've got a lot to say for the one who walked away.

~ Stacy Morris

The grass remains green only as long as you water it. Similarly, a relationship remains fresh only as long as you nurture it with love.

~ Uma Shanker

It’s better to bite your tongue than to eat your words.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

That is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we are good, when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad, and to leave us quite unattractively good.

~ Oscar Wilde

You couldn't find a Jewish sheik?

~ Libby Fischer Hellmann

Never again will I justify the scars just because I loved the person holding the knife.

~ Steve Maraboli

Love always doesn't come across as bad, but it always has two sides.

~ Auliq Ice

People use masks in public and then wonder why their personal life, their relationships, don't work. If you're not being honest with others, there's nothing real about yourself to learn and, the wider the gap, the deeper the suffering. The heart wasn't meant to be closed in a box made of fake feelings and thoughts.

~ Robin Sacredfire