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Quotes about relationships capture the complexity of connection, love, and understanding between people. They reflect both the beauty and the challenges that come with sharing our lives with others. The following collection offers insights that may resonate, comfort, or inspire reflection on the bonds we form.   ◀ Back
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I don't care how happily married you are or how deeply enmeshed you are with your children and family and career -- every woman needs a couple of chicks who'll break out the sangria just because you need to vent.
- Jen Lancaster
Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner
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When I speak of life and love as expanding with age, sex seems the least important thing. At any age we grow by the enlarging of consciousness, by learning a new language, or a new art or craft (gardening?) that implies a new way of looking at the universe. Love is one of the great enlargers of the person because it requires us to "take in" the stranger and to understand him, and to exercise restraint and tolerance as well as imagination to make the relationship work.
- May Sarton
Journal of a Solitude
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Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.
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We tried to act familiar, which meant we couldn't ask the kind of questions that might have helped us figure each other out and year after year the distance grew.
- Heidi Jon Schmidt
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002
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Your ability to make me feel like I was less than I was, took awhile to recover from. But after ripping my own self worth to shreds for so long, I realized that I wasn't less just because I was more than your inexperienced hands could handle.
- Alfa H
Abandoned Breaths
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(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.
From "Butterfly on F street
- Edward P. Jones
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Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God -- a being capable of understanding. Perhaps if I wanted to be understood or to understand I would bam-boozle myself into belief, but I am a reporter; God exists only for leader-writers.
- Graham Greene
The Quiet American
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Narcissists are manipulative and masterful at twisting the situation and working the rules to get what they want. Even more frustrating, they will turn things around in such a way that you may ultimately give them what they want and exhaust yourself in the process. Early in a relationship, the manipulation is most often emotional (“I had a tough childhood, so sometimes I say things I do not mean” or “I am under a lot of stress, so I blew up—I didn’t really mean it”) and financial (masterfully getting you to take on disproportionately more financial responsibility, finding yourself spending money you do not have to keep your relationship going and your partner happy.
- Ramani Durvasula
Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist
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Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you will to love somebody, you can. - Ravi Zacharias' brother
- Ravi Zacharias
I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah
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Never hesitate to let the one you love know how you feel. Align your minds, synchronise your hearts and above be fearless when dancing with their souls.
- Truth Devour
Wantin
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I went to bed without reading, instead staring out my window with the curtains drawn, wondering about boys. Why did they behave so oddly? One minute their teasing was relentless, and then bam!― they’d stun you with a thoughtful gesture. Either way, their actions made you want to cry. Maybe that was the intent.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
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Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215
- Stephanie Dowrick
Intimacy and Solitude: Balancing Closeness and Independence
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For me, it´s sloth," I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
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My hair smells of oceanic wind
My eyes are two starfish
The charming, turquoise sea
is seducing me
The rhythms of the calming
Crashing waves are my guide
Omnipotent, almost holy,
They seek to cleanse my polluted soul
Here, by the seductive sea,
I am unshackled. I am free.
I am me.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
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S'il n y a pas de rapport sexuel c'est que l'Autre est d'une autre race.
- Jacques Lacan
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Relationships are used by the darkness to keep people revolving around the ego’s demands. For a moment, people see the light of the divine in each other. They run to it and then quickly forget the light they once saw as their fears reclaim their consciousness. Thus begins the ongoing battle to protect one’s own ‘rights’, in case they be forgotten or betrayed. The tally of what is owed is counted, the guilt of perceived wrong doings is cast upon the other, one’s freedom must be paid as the price for ‘love’, and it is only in short periods of peace when all of this is forgotten. Those moments are the precious windows of the Soul.
- Donna Goddard
Waldmeer
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Intimacy requires accommodation and gentleness at it's core, and does with phrases like "If it bothers you I won't do it," and "Now I understand." And "Thank you for telling me that. I hadn't seen it in that light." And "I appreciate you taking the time to get through my defences. I am sorry I put up such a fight."
You'd be surprised how much power there is in respect, and how much respect comes back, and how much intimacy there is when you empower someone instead of overpower them, and how much more love.
- Merle Shain
Courage My Love
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Sometimes, the only things in this world that make sense are the moon, my madness and your hands messing up my hair, while your teeth sink into my soul.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
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Finally, Carol said in a tone of hopelessness, "Darling, can I ask you to forgive me?"

The tone hurt Therese more than the question. "I love you, Carol."

"But do you see what it means?
- Patricia Highsmith
The Price of Salt
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If a boy doesn't respect his mother...run!
- Tracy Yates
Suzy Freaking Q: The defintive renegade high school handbook on what to say and what to do about guys, friends, parents and more.
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A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.
- Anthony Kiedis
Scar Tissue
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Because, Jack, you volunteered to be taken down into eternal torment in place of her. This is the absolute minimum (unless I'm mistaken) that any female requires from her man.
- Neal Stephenson
Quicksilver
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I shall now explain my plan. You may then speak, but only to amend the detail. The broad outline is not subject to negotiation. Are you ready? Good … I propose to have sex with you. I believe it will be excellent sex. Your obedience on one particular issue of timing it will be required to make it unforgettable sex. I will explain that issue as we go. At the moment, I wish to hear your inevitable objection to the general sex part of this plan.
- Nick Harkaway
Angelmaker
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Once," Fran says, settling against the worktable, folding her arms, "I knew this kid who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no mattter what anyone else might want for us. Wasn't that you?
- Madeleine George
The Difference Between You and Me
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I don't care how happily married you are or how deeply enmeshed you are with your children and family and career -- every woman needs a couple of chicks who'll break out the sangria just because you need to vent.
- Jen Lancaster
Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I speak of life and love as expanding with age, sex seems the least important thing. At any age we grow by the enlarging of consciousness, by learning a new language, or a new art or craft (gardening?) that implies a new way of looking at the universe. Love is one of the great enlargers of the person because it requires us to "take in" the stranger and to understand him, and to exercise restraint and tolerance as well as imagination to make the relationship work.
- May Sarton
Journal of a Solitude
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Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We tried to act familiar, which meant we couldn't ask the kind of questions that might have helped us figure each other out and year after year the distance grew.
- Heidi Jon Schmidt
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002
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Your ability to make me feel like I was less than I was, took awhile to recover from. But after ripping my own self worth to shreds for so long, I realized that I wasn't less just because I was more than your inexperienced hands could handle.
- Alfa H
Abandoned Breaths
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(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.
From "Butterfly on F street
- Edward P. Jones
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Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God -- a being capable of understanding. Perhaps if I wanted to be understood or to understand I would bam-boozle myself into belief, but I am a reporter; God exists only for leader-writers.
- Graham Greene
The Quiet American
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Narcissists are manipulative and masterful at twisting the situation and working the rules to get what they want. Even more frustrating, they will turn things around in such a way that you may ultimately give them what they want and exhaust yourself in the process. Early in a relationship, the manipulation is most often emotional (“I had a tough childhood, so sometimes I say things I do not mean” or “I am under a lot of stress, so I blew up—I didn’t really mean it”) and financial (masterfully getting you to take on disproportionately more financial responsibility, finding yourself spending money you do not have to keep your relationship going and your partner happy.
- Ramani Durvasula
Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you will to love somebody, you can. - Ravi Zacharias' brother
- Ravi Zacharias
I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never hesitate to let the one you love know how you feel. Align your minds, synchronise your hearts and above be fearless when dancing with their souls.
- Truth Devour
Wantin
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I went to bed without reading, instead staring out my window with the curtains drawn, wondering about boys. Why did they behave so oddly? One minute their teasing was relentless, and then bam!― they’d stun you with a thoughtful gesture. Either way, their actions made you want to cry. Maybe that was the intent.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215
- Stephanie Dowrick
Intimacy and Solitude: Balancing Closeness and Independence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For me, it´s sloth," I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My hair smells of oceanic wind
My eyes are two starfish
The charming, turquoise sea
is seducing me
The rhythms of the calming
Crashing waves are my guide
Omnipotent, almost holy,
They seek to cleanse my polluted soul
Here, by the seductive sea,
I am unshackled. I am free.
I am me.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
S'il n y a pas de rapport sexuel c'est que l'Autre est d'une autre race.
- Jacques Lacan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Relationships are used by the darkness to keep people revolving around the ego’s demands. For a moment, people see the light of the divine in each other. They run to it and then quickly forget the light they once saw as their fears reclaim their consciousness. Thus begins the ongoing battle to protect one’s own ‘rights’, in case they be forgotten or betrayed. The tally of what is owed is counted, the guilt of perceived wrong doings is cast upon the other, one’s freedom must be paid as the price for ‘love’, and it is only in short periods of peace when all of this is forgotten. Those moments are the precious windows of the Soul.
- Donna Goddard
Waldmeer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Intimacy requires accommodation and gentleness at it's core, and does with phrases like "If it bothers you I won't do it," and "Now I understand." And "Thank you for telling me that. I hadn't seen it in that light." And "I appreciate you taking the time to get through my defences. I am sorry I put up such a fight."
You'd be surprised how much power there is in respect, and how much respect comes back, and how much intimacy there is when you empower someone instead of overpower them, and how much more love.
- Merle Shain
Courage My Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes, the only things in this world that make sense are the moon, my madness and your hands messing up my hair, while your teeth sink into my soul.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
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Finally, Carol said in a tone of hopelessness, "Darling, can I ask you to forgive me?"

The tone hurt Therese more than the question. "I love you, Carol."

"But do you see what it means?
- Patricia Highsmith
The Price of Salt
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If a boy doesn't respect his mother...run!
- Tracy Yates
Suzy Freaking Q: The defintive renegade high school handbook on what to say and what to do about guys, friends, parents and more.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.
- Anthony Kiedis
Scar Tissue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because, Jack, you volunteered to be taken down into eternal torment in place of her. This is the absolute minimum (unless I'm mistaken) that any female requires from her man.
- Neal Stephenson
Quicksilver
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I shall now explain my plan. You may then speak, but only to amend the detail. The broad outline is not subject to negotiation. Are you ready? Good … I propose to have sex with you. I believe it will be excellent sex. Your obedience on one particular issue of timing it will be required to make it unforgettable sex. I will explain that issue as we go. At the moment, I wish to hear your inevitable objection to the general sex part of this plan.
- Nick Harkaway
Angelmaker
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Once," Fran says, settling against the worktable, folding her arms, "I knew this kid who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no mattter what anyone else might want for us. Wasn't that you?
- Madeleine George
The Difference Between You and Me
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't care how happily married you are or how deeply enmeshed you are with your children and family and career -- every woman needs a couple of chicks who'll break out the sangria just because you need to vent.
- Jen Lancaster
Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I speak of life and love as expanding with age, sex seems the least important thing. At any age we grow by the enlarging of consciousness, by learning a new language, or a new art or craft (gardening?) that implies a new way of looking at the universe. Love is one of the great enlargers of the person because it requires us to "take in" the stranger and to understand him, and to exercise restraint and tolerance as well as imagination to make the relationship work.
- May Sarton
Journal of a Solitude
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We tried to act familiar, which meant we couldn't ask the kind of questions that might have helped us figure each other out and year after year the distance grew.
- Heidi Jon Schmidt
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your ability to make me feel like I was less than I was, took awhile to recover from. But after ripping my own self worth to shreds for so long, I realized that I wasn't less just because I was more than your inexperienced hands could handle.
- Alfa H
Abandoned Breaths
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.
From "Butterfly on F street
- Edward P. Jones
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God -- a being capable of understanding. Perhaps if I wanted to be understood or to understand I would bam-boozle myself into belief, but I am a reporter; God exists only for leader-writers.
- Graham Greene
The Quiet American
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Narcissists are manipulative and masterful at twisting the situation and working the rules to get what they want. Even more frustrating, they will turn things around in such a way that you may ultimately give them what they want and exhaust yourself in the process. Early in a relationship, the manipulation is most often emotional (“I had a tough childhood, so sometimes I say things I do not mean” or “I am under a lot of stress, so I blew up—I didn’t really mean it”) and financial (masterfully getting you to take on disproportionately more financial responsibility, finding yourself spending money you do not have to keep your relationship going and your partner happy.
- Ramani Durvasula
Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you will to love somebody, you can. - Ravi Zacharias' brother
- Ravi Zacharias
I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never hesitate to let the one you love know how you feel. Align your minds, synchronise your hearts and above be fearless when dancing with their souls.
- Truth Devour
Wantin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I went to bed without reading, instead staring out my window with the curtains drawn, wondering about boys. Why did they behave so oddly? One minute their teasing was relentless, and then bam!― they’d stun you with a thoughtful gesture. Either way, their actions made you want to cry. Maybe that was the intent.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215
- Stephanie Dowrick
Intimacy and Solitude: Balancing Closeness and Independence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For me, it´s sloth," I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My hair smells of oceanic wind
My eyes are two starfish
The charming, turquoise sea
is seducing me
The rhythms of the calming
Crashing waves are my guide
Omnipotent, almost holy,
They seek to cleanse my polluted soul
Here, by the seductive sea,
I am unshackled. I am free.
I am me.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
S'il n y a pas de rapport sexuel c'est que l'Autre est d'une autre race.
- Jacques Lacan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Relationships are used by the darkness to keep people revolving around the ego’s demands. For a moment, people see the light of the divine in each other. They run to it and then quickly forget the light they once saw as their fears reclaim their consciousness. Thus begins the ongoing battle to protect one’s own ‘rights’, in case they be forgotten or betrayed. The tally of what is owed is counted, the guilt of perceived wrong doings is cast upon the other, one’s freedom must be paid as the price for ‘love’, and it is only in short periods of peace when all of this is forgotten. Those moments are the precious windows of the Soul.
- Donna Goddard
Waldmeer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Intimacy requires accommodation and gentleness at it's core, and does with phrases like "If it bothers you I won't do it," and "Now I understand." And "Thank you for telling me that. I hadn't seen it in that light." And "I appreciate you taking the time to get through my defences. I am sorry I put up such a fight."
You'd be surprised how much power there is in respect, and how much respect comes back, and how much intimacy there is when you empower someone instead of overpower them, and how much more love.
- Merle Shain
Courage My Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes, the only things in this world that make sense are the moon, my madness and your hands messing up my hair, while your teeth sink into my soul.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Finally, Carol said in a tone of hopelessness, "Darling, can I ask you to forgive me?"

The tone hurt Therese more than the question. "I love you, Carol."

"But do you see what it means?
- Patricia Highsmith
The Price of Salt
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If a boy doesn't respect his mother...run!
- Tracy Yates
Suzy Freaking Q: The defintive renegade high school handbook on what to say and what to do about guys, friends, parents and more.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.
- Anthony Kiedis
Scar Tissue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because, Jack, you volunteered to be taken down into eternal torment in place of her. This is the absolute minimum (unless I'm mistaken) that any female requires from her man.
- Neal Stephenson
Quicksilver
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I shall now explain my plan. You may then speak, but only to amend the detail. The broad outline is not subject to negotiation. Are you ready? Good … I propose to have sex with you. I believe it will be excellent sex. Your obedience on one particular issue of timing it will be required to make it unforgettable sex. I will explain that issue as we go. At the moment, I wish to hear your inevitable objection to the general sex part of this plan.
- Nick Harkaway
Angelmaker
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Once," Fran says, settling against the worktable, folding her arms, "I knew this kid who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no mattter what anyone else might want for us. Wasn't that you?
- Madeleine George
The Difference Between You and Me
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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