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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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When an accusation is thrown at you that does not fit you, when it doesn’t capture what you know to be true about yourself or your behavior, mentally flip it back on your partner. He is likely accusing you of what he is doing or feeling. Accusations can be about the narcissist’s own vulnerabilities and weaknesses (accusing you of being overly ambitious when he is ambitious, criticizing you for being unsuccessful or not making enough money when he is not feeling successful in that space)
- Ramani Durvasula
Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist
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The person following is never in control, which she knows full well and which is exactly why she does it.
- Sara Gruen
Flying Changes
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I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.
- Jeff Lindsay
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
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The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.
- Emily Giffin
Something Blue
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The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.
- John Irving
In One Person
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Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.
- Erin Morgenstern
The Night Circus
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It was the wildness of it that got me going: the primal lust, the sheer needs of two people in heat, quickly finding ways to express their sacred hunger to each other in animal passion.
- Fiona Thrust
Naked and Sexual
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Always wanted a girl with a heart-shaped ass. Most of my exes have ass-shaped hearts.
- Quentin R. Bufogle
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He opened his mouth to say that she looked extremely beautiful and deserved armfuls of roses, but the words were lost in committee somewhere, shuffled aside by the parts of his head that worked full-time at avoiding ridicule.
- Helen Simonson
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
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None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences will emerge and conflicts will happen. Positively, we also assume that we will be “safe“ in those moments; that even if voices are raised and emotions expressed are intense, there will not be and should not be any abuse or any reason to be unsafe, and that the will to connect and communicate will prevail.
- bell hooks
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
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I wonder
if you ever read my poems
and wish
they were written
for you.
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Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none.
- Gore Vidal
The City and the Pillar
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When coming to sex: First served, first come.
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However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.
- Derrick Bell
Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth
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Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don’t understand that the culture really isn’t offering us all of these options – there still are very strong pressures to conform. We have to step outside the culture to be able to make choices that will really give us what we want. But we lack the psychic mechanisms to do this, to really choose.
- Dalma Heyn
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As I walked inside, she turned around and headed for the end of the bed. Then she paused and turned to face me. She was wearing her Orchard Hill basketball T-shirt and sweatpants and she looked tired, but beautiful.
- Kieran Scott
He's So Not Worth It
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You have dirty hands and dark wild eyes, but by far you are the purest heart I have ever known.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
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Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies.
- Roberto Hogue
Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
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I know what you want, darlin'. You go on and ask me nicely and you might just get it.
- Eve Dangerfield
Degrees of Control
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Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
- Grace Kelly
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There is no guilt in feelings ever.
- Erich Maria Remarque
Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
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In love, we don’t need everyone to want us. We only need one person.
- Matthew Hussey
Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
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A quiet realization would be more poetic—something as quotidian as showing back up. Choosing each other when there's no fanfare.
- Emery Lord
The Map from Here to There
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When an accusation is thrown at you that does not fit you, when it doesn’t capture what you know to be true about yourself or your behavior, mentally flip it back on your partner. He is likely accusing you of what he is doing or feeling. Accusations can be about the narcissist’s own vulnerabilities and weaknesses (accusing you of being overly ambitious when he is ambitious, criticizing you for being unsuccessful or not making enough money when he is not feeling successful in that space)
- Ramani Durvasula
Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The person following is never in control, which she knows full well and which is exactly why she does it.
- Sara Gruen
Flying Changes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.
- Jeff Lindsay
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.
- Emily Giffin
Something Blue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.
- John Irving
In One Person
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.
- Erin Morgenstern
The Night Circus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was the wildness of it that got me going: the primal lust, the sheer needs of two people in heat, quickly finding ways to express their sacred hunger to each other in animal passion.
- Fiona Thrust
Naked and Sexual
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Always wanted a girl with a heart-shaped ass. Most of my exes have ass-shaped hearts.
- Quentin R. Bufogle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He opened his mouth to say that she looked extremely beautiful and deserved armfuls of roses, but the words were lost in committee somewhere, shuffled aside by the parts of his head that worked full-time at avoiding ridicule.
- Helen Simonson
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences will emerge and conflicts will happen. Positively, we also assume that we will be “safe“ in those moments; that even if voices are raised and emotions expressed are intense, there will not be and should not be any abuse or any reason to be unsafe, and that the will to connect and communicate will prevail.
- bell hooks
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wonder
if you ever read my poems
and wish
they were written
for you.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none.
- Gore Vidal
The City and the Pillar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When coming to sex: First served, first come.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.
- Derrick Bell
Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don’t understand that the culture really isn’t offering us all of these options – there still are very strong pressures to conform. We have to step outside the culture to be able to make choices that will really give us what we want. But we lack the psychic mechanisms to do this, to really choose.
- Dalma Heyn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As I walked inside, she turned around and headed for the end of the bed. Then she paused and turned to face me. She was wearing her Orchard Hill basketball T-shirt and sweatpants and she looked tired, but beautiful.
- Kieran Scott
He's So Not Worth It
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You have dirty hands and dark wild eyes, but by far you are the purest heart I have ever known.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies.
- Roberto Hogue
Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know what you want, darlin'. You go on and ask me nicely and you might just get it.
- Eve Dangerfield
Degrees of Control
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
- Grace Kelly
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no guilt in feelings ever.
- Erich Maria Remarque
Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In love, we don’t need everyone to want us. We only need one person.
- Matthew Hussey
Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A quiet realization would be more poetic—something as quotidian as showing back up. Choosing each other when there's no fanfare.
- Emery Lord
The Map from Here to There
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When an accusation is thrown at you that does not fit you, when it doesn’t capture what you know to be true about yourself or your behavior, mentally flip it back on your partner. He is likely accusing you of what he is doing or feeling. Accusations can be about the narcissist’s own vulnerabilities and weaknesses (accusing you of being overly ambitious when he is ambitious, criticizing you for being unsuccessful or not making enough money when he is not feeling successful in that space)
- Ramani Durvasula
Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The person following is never in control, which she knows full well and which is exactly why she does it.
- Sara Gruen
Flying Changes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.
- Jeff Lindsay
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.
- Emily Giffin
Something Blue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.
- John Irving
In One Person
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.
- Erin Morgenstern
The Night Circus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was the wildness of it that got me going: the primal lust, the sheer needs of two people in heat, quickly finding ways to express their sacred hunger to each other in animal passion.
- Fiona Thrust
Naked and Sexual
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Always wanted a girl with a heart-shaped ass. Most of my exes have ass-shaped hearts.
- Quentin R. Bufogle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He opened his mouth to say that she looked extremely beautiful and deserved armfuls of roses, but the words were lost in committee somewhere, shuffled aside by the parts of his head that worked full-time at avoiding ridicule.
- Helen Simonson
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences will emerge and conflicts will happen. Positively, we also assume that we will be “safe“ in those moments; that even if voices are raised and emotions expressed are intense, there will not be and should not be any abuse or any reason to be unsafe, and that the will to connect and communicate will prevail.
- bell hooks
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wonder
if you ever read my poems
and wish
they were written
for you.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none.
- Gore Vidal
The City and the Pillar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When coming to sex: First served, first come.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.
- Derrick Bell
Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don’t understand that the culture really isn’t offering us all of these options – there still are very strong pressures to conform. We have to step outside the culture to be able to make choices that will really give us what we want. But we lack the psychic mechanisms to do this, to really choose.
- Dalma Heyn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As I walked inside, she turned around and headed for the end of the bed. Then she paused and turned to face me. She was wearing her Orchard Hill basketball T-shirt and sweatpants and she looked tired, but beautiful.
- Kieran Scott
He's So Not Worth It
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You have dirty hands and dark wild eyes, but by far you are the purest heart I have ever known.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies.
- Roberto Hogue
Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know what you want, darlin'. You go on and ask me nicely and you might just get it.
- Eve Dangerfield
Degrees of Control
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
- Grace Kelly
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no guilt in feelings ever.
- Erich Maria Remarque
Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In love, we don’t need everyone to want us. We only need one person.
- Matthew Hussey
Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A quiet realization would be more poetic—something as quotidian as showing back up. Choosing each other when there's no fanfare.
- Emery Lord
The Map from Here to There
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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