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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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But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies' room door.
- Melissa Bank
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
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It is 10 PM now, and Godzilla has been sitting at his desk in front of his laptop for six to seven hours. He has accomplished hardly anything today. Godzilla is drinking a lot of beer. He can not stop smoking cigarettes. His room is blue with cigarette smoke, and Godzilla sits on a chair in there, minimizing and maximizing Mozilla Firefox repeatedly. He is not over his girlfriend's house because she said on the cell phone that she needed time, alone, to think about their relationship. Godzilla worries that he will not be able to take care of himself if they break up.
- Brandon Scott Gorrell
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In the mainstream, with its illusion of unlimited relational possibilities, we can counter dissatisfaction in relationships by simply moving on in search of the "right people." But community...demands we cultivate friendships with people we might not choose ordinarily. Founding friendship on commitment rather than "chemistry" often requires adjustment...At the end of the day, however, we have found that any loss of chemistry in relationships is more than made up for with gains in meaning.
- Jose Panate-Aceves and John Hayes
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Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.
- Arnold Arre
After Eden
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I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.
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This is what we do. Not so much argue as joust, in jest. We can't stop pushing and pulling the taffy of words and concepts.
- Larry Duberstein
The Twoweeks
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Once you fall in love with her, you'll never recover.
- Melody Lee
Vine: Book of Poetry
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It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it.
- sunny-drunk
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Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
- Anthony Kiedis
Scar Tissue
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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.
- Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
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Whether our caretaker was our mom, dad, uncle, aunt, grandparent, foster parent, or sibling, our blueprint of what a relationship is supposed to look like is drafted by what we observed from our caretaker’s relationship. If our caretaker took their significant other back multiple times, made excuses for their actions, helped them battle demons, turned a blind eye to their infidelity, or moved from one relationship to the next, that is what we know. Their behavior becomes our very own model of what a relationship is supposed to look like and determines what we will expect from our own partners.
- Kristen Crockett
The Gift of Past Relationships
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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.
- bell hooks
All About Love: New Visions
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Okay, then, what was he like? Just give me something to go on so that I have a shot at him!'
'A shot at him? Are you on an elk hunt?
- Sara Zarr
Sweethearts
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You have made him live.
- Jude Morgan
Indiscretion
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Can I have a glass of water?" Her voice was hoarse, probably from screaming. She'd always sounded like that after they'd-

He didn't just force the thought aside. He clubbed it unconscious, threw it into a crawl space and walled it up alive.
- Jennifer Armintrout
Ashes to Ashes
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Teasing tongues
Twisted Sheets
Tangled in love
Those are about the only things
tidy and proper
this morning.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
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She wished she were not so aware of the vast gulf between what the men in her life thought she was worth and her actual value. She had, it seemed to her, always asked and expected too much and given too little. She seemed almost to have a perverse impulse to make anyone who cared about her regret it, to find the thing that would most appall those people and then do that until they had to run away as a matter of self-preservation.
- Joe Hill
NOS4A2
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If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman, gay, straight, bisexual, transgender—whatever else we may think of. But those identities need to fit very loosely and be worn very lightly. All sense of privilege or deprivation that has developed around one’s gender identity, all rigidity regarding proper roles and behaviors for the various genders, must be cut through.
- Rita M. Gross
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I had a dream about you. You had no skin or muscle on your face, and to try to conceal your bare skull you liberally applied lipstick and makeup. Your birthday was coming up, and I knew you were probably sensitive about parties that emphasize the aging process, so I decided to box up your gift in a coffin and wrap it with black wrapping paper. I got you the best gift ever too—a hooker, who happened to be dead, because that enabled me to procure a sizeable discount.

- Dora J. Arod
I Had a Dream About You
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You want my advice? Put down your phone. Hug her from behind and kiss the back of her neck. Entwine your fingers with hers…. You’re welcome.
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I knew I was waiting for someone I didn't understand.
- Megan Mayhew Bergman
Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
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But we'd only had so many nights together, and the notebook had so many pages, and the world was never going to get bigger.
- Jennifer R. Hubbard
The Secret Year
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There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
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To the immature, other people are not real.
- Harry and Bonaro Overstreet
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But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies' room door.
- Melissa Bank
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is 10 PM now, and Godzilla has been sitting at his desk in front of his laptop for six to seven hours. He has accomplished hardly anything today. Godzilla is drinking a lot of beer. He can not stop smoking cigarettes. His room is blue with cigarette smoke, and Godzilla sits on a chair in there, minimizing and maximizing Mozilla Firefox repeatedly. He is not over his girlfriend's house because she said on the cell phone that she needed time, alone, to think about their relationship. Godzilla worries that he will not be able to take care of himself if they break up.
- Brandon Scott Gorrell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the mainstream, with its illusion of unlimited relational possibilities, we can counter dissatisfaction in relationships by simply moving on in search of the "right people." But community...demands we cultivate friendships with people we might not choose ordinarily. Founding friendship on commitment rather than "chemistry" often requires adjustment...At the end of the day, however, we have found that any loss of chemistry in relationships is more than made up for with gains in meaning.
- Jose Panate-Aceves and John Hayes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.
- Arnold Arre
After Eden
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is what we do. Not so much argue as joust, in jest. We can't stop pushing and pulling the taffy of words and concepts.
- Larry Duberstein
The Twoweeks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Once you fall in love with her, you'll never recover.
- Melody Lee
Vine: Book of Poetry
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it.
- sunny-drunk
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
- Anthony Kiedis
Scar Tissue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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.
- Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whether our caretaker was our mom, dad, uncle, aunt, grandparent, foster parent, or sibling, our blueprint of what a relationship is supposed to look like is drafted by what we observed from our caretaker’s relationship. If our caretaker took their significant other back multiple times, made excuses for their actions, helped them battle demons, turned a blind eye to their infidelity, or moved from one relationship to the next, that is what we know. Their behavior becomes our very own model of what a relationship is supposed to look like and determines what we will expect from our own partners.
- Kristen Crockett
The Gift of Past Relationships
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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.
- bell hooks
All About Love: New Visions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Okay, then, what was he like? Just give me something to go on so that I have a shot at him!'
'A shot at him? Are you on an elk hunt?
- Sara Zarr
Sweethearts
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You have made him live.
- Jude Morgan
Indiscretion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Can I have a glass of water?" Her voice was hoarse, probably from screaming. She'd always sounded like that after they'd-

He didn't just force the thought aside. He clubbed it unconscious, threw it into a crawl space and walled it up alive.
- Jennifer Armintrout
Ashes to Ashes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Teasing tongues
Twisted Sheets
Tangled in love
Those are about the only things
tidy and proper
this morning.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She wished she were not so aware of the vast gulf between what the men in her life thought she was worth and her actual value. She had, it seemed to her, always asked and expected too much and given too little. She seemed almost to have a perverse impulse to make anyone who cared about her regret it, to find the thing that would most appall those people and then do that until they had to run away as a matter of self-preservation.
- Joe Hill
NOS4A2
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman, gay, straight, bisexual, transgender—whatever else we may think of. But those identities need to fit very loosely and be worn very lightly. All sense of privilege or deprivation that has developed around one’s gender identity, all rigidity regarding proper roles and behaviors for the various genders, must be cut through.
- Rita M. Gross
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I had a dream about you. You had no skin or muscle on your face, and to try to conceal your bare skull you liberally applied lipstick and makeup. Your birthday was coming up, and I knew you were probably sensitive about parties that emphasize the aging process, so I decided to box up your gift in a coffin and wrap it with black wrapping paper. I got you the best gift ever too—a hooker, who happened to be dead, because that enabled me to procure a sizeable discount.

- Dora J. Arod
I Had a Dream About You
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You want my advice? Put down your phone. Hug her from behind and kiss the back of her neck. Entwine your fingers with hers…. You’re welcome.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I knew I was waiting for someone I didn't understand.
- Megan Mayhew Bergman
Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But we'd only had so many nights together, and the notebook had so many pages, and the world was never going to get bigger.
- Jennifer R. Hubbard
The Secret Year
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To the immature, other people are not real.
- Harry and Bonaro Overstreet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies' room door.
- Melissa Bank
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is 10 PM now, and Godzilla has been sitting at his desk in front of his laptop for six to seven hours. He has accomplished hardly anything today. Godzilla is drinking a lot of beer. He can not stop smoking cigarettes. His room is blue with cigarette smoke, and Godzilla sits on a chair in there, minimizing and maximizing Mozilla Firefox repeatedly. He is not over his girlfriend's house because she said on the cell phone that she needed time, alone, to think about their relationship. Godzilla worries that he will not be able to take care of himself if they break up.
- Brandon Scott Gorrell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the mainstream, with its illusion of unlimited relational possibilities, we can counter dissatisfaction in relationships by simply moving on in search of the "right people." But community...demands we cultivate friendships with people we might not choose ordinarily. Founding friendship on commitment rather than "chemistry" often requires adjustment...At the end of the day, however, we have found that any loss of chemistry in relationships is more than made up for with gains in meaning.
- Jose Panate-Aceves and John Hayes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.
- Arnold Arre
After Eden
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is what we do. Not so much argue as joust, in jest. We can't stop pushing and pulling the taffy of words and concepts.
- Larry Duberstein
The Twoweeks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Once you fall in love with her, you'll never recover.
- Melody Lee
Vine: Book of Poetry
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it.
- sunny-drunk
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
- Anthony Kiedis
Scar Tissue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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.
- Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whether our caretaker was our mom, dad, uncle, aunt, grandparent, foster parent, or sibling, our blueprint of what a relationship is supposed to look like is drafted by what we observed from our caretaker’s relationship. If our caretaker took their significant other back multiple times, made excuses for their actions, helped them battle demons, turned a blind eye to their infidelity, or moved from one relationship to the next, that is what we know. Their behavior becomes our very own model of what a relationship is supposed to look like and determines what we will expect from our own partners.
- Kristen Crockett
The Gift of Past Relationships
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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.
- bell hooks
All About Love: New Visions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Okay, then, what was he like? Just give me something to go on so that I have a shot at him!'
'A shot at him? Are you on an elk hunt?
- Sara Zarr
Sweethearts
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You have made him live.
- Jude Morgan
Indiscretion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Can I have a glass of water?" Her voice was hoarse, probably from screaming. She'd always sounded like that after they'd-

He didn't just force the thought aside. He clubbed it unconscious, threw it into a crawl space and walled it up alive.
- Jennifer Armintrout
Ashes to Ashes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Teasing tongues
Twisted Sheets
Tangled in love
Those are about the only things
tidy and proper
this morning.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She wished she were not so aware of the vast gulf between what the men in her life thought she was worth and her actual value. She had, it seemed to her, always asked and expected too much and given too little. She seemed almost to have a perverse impulse to make anyone who cared about her regret it, to find the thing that would most appall those people and then do that until they had to run away as a matter of self-preservation.
- Joe Hill
NOS4A2
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman, gay, straight, bisexual, transgender—whatever else we may think of. But those identities need to fit very loosely and be worn very lightly. All sense of privilege or deprivation that has developed around one’s gender identity, all rigidity regarding proper roles and behaviors for the various genders, must be cut through.
- Rita M. Gross
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I had a dream about you. You had no skin or muscle on your face, and to try to conceal your bare skull you liberally applied lipstick and makeup. Your birthday was coming up, and I knew you were probably sensitive about parties that emphasize the aging process, so I decided to box up your gift in a coffin and wrap it with black wrapping paper. I got you the best gift ever too—a hooker, who happened to be dead, because that enabled me to procure a sizeable discount.

- Dora J. Arod
I Had a Dream About You
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You want my advice? Put down your phone. Hug her from behind and kiss the back of her neck. Entwine your fingers with hers…. You’re welcome.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I knew I was waiting for someone I didn't understand.
- Megan Mayhew Bergman
Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But we'd only had so many nights together, and the notebook had so many pages, and the world was never going to get bigger.
- Jennifer R. Hubbard
The Secret Year
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To the immature, other people are not real.
- Harry and Bonaro Overstreet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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