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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.

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Soul Mates share complementary, compatible life goals and their spiritual natures are often in sync with ours. They also experience an immense level of comfort with each other that cannot be experienced in other relationships, and they complement each other in many ways through their strengths and weaknesses.
- Aletheia Luna
Twin Flames and Soul Mates: How to Find, Create, and Sustain Awakened Relationships
NOT YET RATED
Being in a relationship with some people is like pushing a boat through sand. I used to have the time and energy for that kind of nonsense, but not anymore. Relationships should be a wonderful journey of exploration and love; not grinding resistance.
NOT YET RATED
It's the in-between, the sustenance, not just the gears and bolts that make a human. When you forget to find out how the person was built—the oil, chemistry, and the craft—you miss all the beauty.
- Piper Payne
White Lies
NOT YET RATED
We draw into our life those who will help us to grow. Naturally, we tend to have mixed feelings about those very people but they are marked for us. We have forgotten that we wrote them an invitation some time ago. We look at them as if they are intruders when all along they are our guests.
- Donna Goddard
Waldmeer
NOT YET RATED
Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it's gonna backfire; I'm gonna be active friendly.
- Natalya Vorobyova
Better to be able to love than to be loveable
NOT YET RATED
I had a dream about you. At first you were a mannequin, and I was a fashion designer. Then, inexplicably, we switched roles and I became the mannequin. But instead of putting clothes on me, you laughed at my nakedness, and you sold me to the owner of a sex shop. 

- Dark Jar Tin Zoo
I Had a Dream About You
NOT YET RATED
I had a dream about you. You were you, but you were many—a multitude of mannequins, each named Manny. And I was me, but I was Dark Jar Tin Zoo, and as such I made love to you—all of you. Then I woke up alone, naked, cuddling a mannequin I named after you who smells like you, because I spray it with the same fragrance you used to wear. Is that crazy? No, I didn’t think so either. 

- Dora J. Arod
I Had a Dream About You
NOT YET RATED
Well, we’ll have to agree to disagree.” I hated that phrase. It was code for, “I know you’re too obtuse to ever see how I right I am, so to get any satisfaction out of this discussion, I’m going to pretend to be more reasonable than you. Oh, and get the last word in.
- Jess Lourey
August Moon
NOT YET RATED
You can have a pet zebra and put that zebra into a small cage every day and tell the zebra that you love it, but no matter how you and the zebra love each other, the fact remains, that the zebra should be let out of that cage and should belong to someone who can treat it better, the way it should be treated, someone who can make it happy.
NOT YET RATED
When jealousy rears up, it indicates that something inside of you is afraid. It's an alarm, nothing less and nothing more. Treat it as such.
- Anthony D. Ravenscroft
Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful
NOT YET RATED
I'm always looking for what will make me whole. What will make me happy? Somewhere along the way I started to think it wasn't Helen anymore. She hasn't changed. Her laugh is still the one I remember. Her finger is still the one I put the ring on all those years ago. I can't understand why I don't want to curve next to her, keep her back warm anymore. Surely you don't lose love like keys?
- Cath Crowley
The Life and Times of Gracie Faltrain
NOT YET RATED
They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody.
NOT YET RATED
It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.
- Annie Barrows
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
NOT YET RATED
...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.
- Lionel Shriver
We Need to Talk About Kevin
NOT YET RATED
He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.
- Chris Crutcher
The Crazy Horse Electric Game
NOT YET RATED
The woman's name turned out to be Sarit, and the next day Daniel made them go to the funeral. He said they needed closure, and that as far as he was concerned, it was either a funeral or couples therapy. Romi had no desire to go to the funeral, but therapy sounded even worse, like a cross between mud wrestling and divorce court.
- Etgar Keret
Autocorrect: Stories
NOT YET RATED
Love doesn't ask permission to complicate your life. It just shows up, uninvited, and dares you to be brave enough to let it stay.
- Rajesh Debbarma
The Line Between Us: A Heartbreaking Contemporary Romance About First Love, Illness, Loss, and Lines We Cross for Love
NOT YET RATED
People who do not feel amiable are putting great pressure on themselves to be amiable! There is at Christmas a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!
- Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
NOT YET RATED
You know, sometimes even we mess up in relationships, and instead of accepting it, we start blaming the other person. But deep down, we know the truth that it was us who was wrong. You know, hurting someone just to escape our own guilt doesn’t fix anything, it only makes things worse, and sometimes, irreparable.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATED
....that collective punishment of a civilian population for their electoral choices would be subject to a far higher standard of scrutiny if that population weren't a politically powerless contingent of Brown people, or that the very same terror group had long received support from the Israeli government as a matter of strategy so as to keep an entity in power that at least partially shared the government's disdain for peace or a two-state solution, or that the occupation and terror inflicted on Palestinians long predates the creation of Hamas.
- Omar El Akkad
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
NOT YET RATED
I asked for small things, but even that became too much for you. So I told myself to expect less and then eventually accepted to expect nothing from you. And in that process, I stopped caring about what you wanted from me. You know the truth is simple, people change when they feel unheard and misunderstood. That’s what happened to me and that's why, your expectations don’t matter to me anymore and neither do you.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATED
Human relations are also like learning to swim… one begins in fear, keeps thrashing against something that feels infinite, gets panicked. And when you calm yourself down and stop resisting… surrendering to the symphony of it… it is only then when you start to stay afloat.
- Sam P. Grace
YOU DON’T WANT TO DIE: Life Renews in the Depths of Despair
NOT YET RATED
A moment of real connection can unlearn years of separation.
NOT YET RATED
I don’t owe you anything. Not my time, not my answers, not my presence. You had your chance, you wasted it, and now you want clarity from the same person you once took for granted. I walked away for a reason. And no, I don’t owe you a single thing anymore.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATED
Soul Mates share complementary, compatible life goals and their spiritual natures are often in sync with ours. They also experience an immense level of comfort with each other that cannot be experienced in other relationships, and they complement each other in many ways through their strengths and weaknesses.
- Aletheia Luna
Twin Flames and Soul Mates: How to Find, Create, and Sustain Awakened Relationships
NOT YET RATED
Being in a relationship with some people is like pushing a boat through sand. I used to have the time and energy for that kind of nonsense, but not anymore. Relationships should be a wonderful journey of exploration and love; not grinding resistance.
NOT YET RATED
It's the in-between, the sustenance, not just the gears and bolts that make a human. When you forget to find out how the person was built—the oil, chemistry, and the craft—you miss all the beauty.
- Piper Payne
White Lies
NOT YET RATED
We draw into our life those who will help us to grow. Naturally, we tend to have mixed feelings about those very people but they are marked for us. We have forgotten that we wrote them an invitation some time ago. We look at them as if they are intruders when all along they are our guests.
- Donna Goddard
Waldmeer
NOT YET RATED
Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it's gonna backfire; I'm gonna be active friendly.
- Natalya Vorobyova
Better to be able to love than to be loveable
NOT YET RATED
I had a dream about you. At first you were a mannequin, and I was a fashion designer. Then, inexplicably, we switched roles and I became the mannequin. But instead of putting clothes on me, you laughed at my nakedness, and you sold me to the owner of a sex shop. 

- Dark Jar Tin Zoo
I Had a Dream About You
NOT YET RATED
I had a dream about you. You were you, but you were many—a multitude of mannequins, each named Manny. And I was me, but I was Dark Jar Tin Zoo, and as such I made love to you—all of you. Then I woke up alone, naked, cuddling a mannequin I named after you who smells like you, because I spray it with the same fragrance you used to wear. Is that crazy? No, I didn’t think so either. 

- Dora J. Arod
I Had a Dream About You
NOT YET RATED
Well, we’ll have to agree to disagree.” I hated that phrase. It was code for, “I know you’re too obtuse to ever see how I right I am, so to get any satisfaction out of this discussion, I’m going to pretend to be more reasonable than you. Oh, and get the last word in.
- Jess Lourey
August Moon
NOT YET RATED
You can have a pet zebra and put that zebra into a small cage every day and tell the zebra that you love it, but no matter how you and the zebra love each other, the fact remains, that the zebra should be let out of that cage and should belong to someone who can treat it better, the way it should be treated, someone who can make it happy.
NOT YET RATED
When jealousy rears up, it indicates that something inside of you is afraid. It's an alarm, nothing less and nothing more. Treat it as such.
- Anthony D. Ravenscroft
Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful
NOT YET RATED
I'm always looking for what will make me whole. What will make me happy? Somewhere along the way I started to think it wasn't Helen anymore. She hasn't changed. Her laugh is still the one I remember. Her finger is still the one I put the ring on all those years ago. I can't understand why I don't want to curve next to her, keep her back warm anymore. Surely you don't lose love like keys?
- Cath Crowley
The Life and Times of Gracie Faltrain
NOT YET RATED
They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody.
NOT YET RATED
It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.
- Annie Barrows
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
NOT YET RATED
...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.
- Lionel Shriver
We Need to Talk About Kevin
NOT YET RATED
He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.
- Chris Crutcher
The Crazy Horse Electric Game
NOT YET RATED
The woman's name turned out to be Sarit, and the next day Daniel made them go to the funeral. He said they needed closure, and that as far as he was concerned, it was either a funeral or couples therapy. Romi had no desire to go to the funeral, but therapy sounded even worse, like a cross between mud wrestling and divorce court.
- Etgar Keret
Autocorrect: Stories
NOT YET RATED
Love doesn't ask permission to complicate your life. It just shows up, uninvited, and dares you to be brave enough to let it stay.
- Rajesh Debbarma
The Line Between Us: A Heartbreaking Contemporary Romance About First Love, Illness, Loss, and Lines We Cross for Love
NOT YET RATED
People who do not feel amiable are putting great pressure on themselves to be amiable! There is at Christmas a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!
- Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
NOT YET RATED
You know, sometimes even we mess up in relationships, and instead of accepting it, we start blaming the other person. But deep down, we know the truth that it was us who was wrong. You know, hurting someone just to escape our own guilt doesn’t fix anything, it only makes things worse, and sometimes, irreparable.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATED
....that collective punishment of a civilian population for their electoral choices would be subject to a far higher standard of scrutiny if that population weren't a politically powerless contingent of Brown people, or that the very same terror group had long received support from the Israeli government as a matter of strategy so as to keep an entity in power that at least partially shared the government's disdain for peace or a two-state solution, or that the occupation and terror inflicted on Palestinians long predates the creation of Hamas.
- Omar El Akkad
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
NOT YET RATED
I asked for small things, but even that became too much for you. So I told myself to expect less and then eventually accepted to expect nothing from you. And in that process, I stopped caring about what you wanted from me. You know the truth is simple, people change when they feel unheard and misunderstood. That’s what happened to me and that's why, your expectations don’t matter to me anymore and neither do you.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATED
Human relations are also like learning to swim… one begins in fear, keeps thrashing against something that feels infinite, gets panicked. And when you calm yourself down and stop resisting… surrendering to the symphony of it… it is only then when you start to stay afloat.
- Sam P. Grace
YOU DON’T WANT TO DIE: Life Renews in the Depths of Despair
NOT YET RATED
A moment of real connection can unlearn years of separation.
NOT YET RATED
I don’t owe you anything. Not my time, not my answers, not my presence. You had your chance, you wasted it, and now you want clarity from the same person you once took for granted. I walked away for a reason. And no, I don’t owe you a single thing anymore.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATED
Soul Mates share complementary, compatible life goals and their spiritual natures are often in sync with ours. They also experience an immense level of comfort with each other that cannot be experienced in other relationships, and they complement each other in many ways through their strengths and weaknesses.
- Aletheia Luna
Twin Flames and Soul Mates: How to Find, Create, and Sustain Awakened Relationships
NOT YET RATED
Being in a relationship with some people is like pushing a boat through sand. I used to have the time and energy for that kind of nonsense, but not anymore. Relationships should be a wonderful journey of exploration and love; not grinding resistance.
NOT YET RATED
It's the in-between, the sustenance, not just the gears and bolts that make a human. When you forget to find out how the person was built—the oil, chemistry, and the craft—you miss all the beauty.
- Piper Payne
White Lies
NOT YET RATED
We draw into our life those who will help us to grow. Naturally, we tend to have mixed feelings about those very people but they are marked for us. We have forgotten that we wrote them an invitation some time ago. We look at them as if they are intruders when all along they are our guests.
- Donna Goddard
Waldmeer
NOT YET RATED
Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it's gonna backfire; I'm gonna be active friendly.
- Natalya Vorobyova
Better to be able to love than to be loveable
NOT YET RATED
I had a dream about you. At first you were a mannequin, and I was a fashion designer. Then, inexplicably, we switched roles and I became the mannequin. But instead of putting clothes on me, you laughed at my nakedness, and you sold me to the owner of a sex shop. 

- Dark Jar Tin Zoo
I Had a Dream About You
NOT YET RATED
I had a dream about you. You were you, but you were many—a multitude of mannequins, each named Manny. And I was me, but I was Dark Jar Tin Zoo, and as such I made love to you—all of you. Then I woke up alone, naked, cuddling a mannequin I named after you who smells like you, because I spray it with the same fragrance you used to wear. Is that crazy? No, I didn’t think so either. 

- Dora J. Arod
I Had a Dream About You
NOT YET RATED
Well, we’ll have to agree to disagree.” I hated that phrase. It was code for, “I know you’re too obtuse to ever see how I right I am, so to get any satisfaction out of this discussion, I’m going to pretend to be more reasonable than you. Oh, and get the last word in.
- Jess Lourey
August Moon
NOT YET RATED
You can have a pet zebra and put that zebra into a small cage every day and tell the zebra that you love it, but no matter how you and the zebra love each other, the fact remains, that the zebra should be let out of that cage and should belong to someone who can treat it better, the way it should be treated, someone who can make it happy.
NOT YET RATED
When jealousy rears up, it indicates that something inside of you is afraid. It's an alarm, nothing less and nothing more. Treat it as such.
- Anthony D. Ravenscroft
Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful
NOT YET RATED
I'm always looking for what will make me whole. What will make me happy? Somewhere along the way I started to think it wasn't Helen anymore. She hasn't changed. Her laugh is still the one I remember. Her finger is still the one I put the ring on all those years ago. I can't understand why I don't want to curve next to her, keep her back warm anymore. Surely you don't lose love like keys?
- Cath Crowley
The Life and Times of Gracie Faltrain
NOT YET RATED
They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody.
NOT YET RATED
It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.
- Annie Barrows
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
NOT YET RATED
...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.
- Lionel Shriver
We Need to Talk About Kevin
NOT YET RATED
He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.
- Chris Crutcher
The Crazy Horse Electric Game
NOT YET RATED
The woman's name turned out to be Sarit, and the next day Daniel made them go to the funeral. He said they needed closure, and that as far as he was concerned, it was either a funeral or couples therapy. Romi had no desire to go to the funeral, but therapy sounded even worse, like a cross between mud wrestling and divorce court.
- Etgar Keret
Autocorrect: Stories
NOT YET RATED
Love doesn't ask permission to complicate your life. It just shows up, uninvited, and dares you to be brave enough to let it stay.
- Rajesh Debbarma
The Line Between Us: A Heartbreaking Contemporary Romance About First Love, Illness, Loss, and Lines We Cross for Love
NOT YET RATED
People who do not feel amiable are putting great pressure on themselves to be amiable! There is at Christmas a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!
- Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
NOT YET RATED
You know, sometimes even we mess up in relationships, and instead of accepting it, we start blaming the other person. But deep down, we know the truth that it was us who was wrong. You know, hurting someone just to escape our own guilt doesn’t fix anything, it only makes things worse, and sometimes, irreparable.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATED
....that collective punishment of a civilian population for their electoral choices would be subject to a far higher standard of scrutiny if that population weren't a politically powerless contingent of Brown people, or that the very same terror group had long received support from the Israeli government as a matter of strategy so as to keep an entity in power that at least partially shared the government's disdain for peace or a two-state solution, or that the occupation and terror inflicted on Palestinians long predates the creation of Hamas.
- Omar El Akkad
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
NOT YET RATED
I asked for small things, but even that became too much for you. So I told myself to expect less and then eventually accepted to expect nothing from you. And in that process, I stopped caring about what you wanted from me. You know the truth is simple, people change when they feel unheard and misunderstood. That’s what happened to me and that's why, your expectations don’t matter to me anymore and neither do you.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
NOT YET RATED
Human relations are also like learning to swim… one begins in fear, keeps thrashing against something that feels infinite, gets panicked. And when you calm yourself down and stop resisting… surrendering to the symphony of it… it is only then when you start to stay afloat.
- Sam P. Grace
YOU DON’T WANT TO DIE: Life Renews in the Depths of Despair
NOT YET RATED
A moment of real connection can unlearn years of separation.
NOT YET RATED
I don’t owe you anything. Not my time, not my answers, not my presence. You had your chance, you wasted it, and now you want clarity from the same person you once took for granted. I walked away for a reason. And no, I don’t owe you a single thing anymore.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
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