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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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Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.
- Emily Giffin
Love the One You're With
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Love will not be constrain'd by mastery.
When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon
Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone.
Love is a thing as any spirit free.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
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Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
- Joseph Ellis
His Excellency: George Washington
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Please don’t hate you??!! I hate that I love you. Loving you made me waste a year of my life. Loving
you made me be passionate about nothing but you. Loving you made me take risks I never would have
otherwise. Loving you made me give it up to you. Loving you made me neglect my parents and Amy.
Loving you made me not care that my grandma just died. Loving you made me turn out bitter and
hopeless like her. Loving you made me hate myself for being dumped by you. Loving you made me
deluded, irrational, inconsiderate, and a liar. And because I love you, you’re always going to haunt me.
- Daria Snadowsky
Anatomy of a Boyfriend
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But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there's very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, growing taller than most of the plants around it.
- Neesha Meminger
Shine, Coconut Moon
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Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
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Sure am glad I'm not royalty," I muttered. "I wouldn't want to have to bump uglies with someone I can't stand. On a regular basis. And no one else."
"Ow!" I exclaimed, trying to yank my fingers from Trent but finding them caught. Then I colored, realizing what I'd said. "Oh… sorry," I stammered, meaning it. "That was insensitive."
Trent's frown turned into a sly smirk. "Bump uglies?" he said, eyes on the table behind me. "You are a font of gutter slang, Rachel. We must do this again.
- Kim Harrison
For a Few Demons More
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Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, "I want to know why!
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Hannah knelt to get a closer look at the trail of holes. “Last night’s vandal wore stilettos.”
The two men stared at her, confused.
“English, please. You’re talking to country boys.
- Cricket Rohman
Colorado Takedown
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They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else--the cold, and where he'd go in it--was outside, for a while anyway.
- Raymond Carver
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
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Reva often spoke about 'settling down.' That sounded like death to me.

'I'd rather be alone than anybody's live-in prostitute,' I said to Reva.
- Ottessa Moshfegh
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
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It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.
- M. Scott Peck
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
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I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions. I have found that what usually brings this lethargy on is if the woman displays some special kindness. Like making dinner.
- Eve Babitz
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
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All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties and down times are an indication of a lack of love rather than part of the process. In actuality, true love thrives of the difficulties. The foundation of such love is the assumption that we want to grow and expand, to become more fully ourselves. There is no change that does not bring with it a feeling of challenge and loss. When we experience true love it may feel as though our lives are in danger; we may feel threatened.
- bell hooks
All About Love: New Visions
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I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.
- S.J. Watson
Before I Go to Sleep
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I had a dream about you last night. We stopped telling each other about our dreams when we realized we were still inside them.
- Michael Summers
I Had a Dream About You
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In love, treat your relationship as if you are growing the most beautiful flower. Keep watering it, tend to its roots, give it lots of sunlight, and always make sure the petals are full of color and are never curling. Once you neglect your plant, it will die, as will your relationship.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.
- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
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Mismatches destroy us all, even the most tender ones, and most never have the courage to break someone else's heart to follow their own.
- Amy Guth
Three Fallen Women
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Fighting is a soldier’s only religion. But it has proven useful to adopt the religion of the country I wish to conquer.
- Rebecca Rosenberg
Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot
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Just because lips have met doesn't mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn't mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal love.
- Joshua Harris
I Kissed Dating Goodbye: Study Guide
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The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being
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You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?
- Simona Panova
Nightmarish Sacrifice
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Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.
- Emily Giffin
Love the One You're With
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love will not be constrain'd by mastery.
When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon
Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone.
Love is a thing as any spirit free.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
- Joseph Ellis
His Excellency: George Washington
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Please don’t hate you??!! I hate that I love you. Loving you made me waste a year of my life. Loving
you made me be passionate about nothing but you. Loving you made me take risks I never would have
otherwise. Loving you made me give it up to you. Loving you made me neglect my parents and Amy.
Loving you made me not care that my grandma just died. Loving you made me turn out bitter and
hopeless like her. Loving you made me hate myself for being dumped by you. Loving you made me
deluded, irrational, inconsiderate, and a liar. And because I love you, you’re always going to haunt me.
- Daria Snadowsky
Anatomy of a Boyfriend
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there's very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, growing taller than most of the plants around it.
- Neesha Meminger
Shine, Coconut Moon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sure am glad I'm not royalty," I muttered. "I wouldn't want to have to bump uglies with someone I can't stand. On a regular basis. And no one else."
"Ow!" I exclaimed, trying to yank my fingers from Trent but finding them caught. Then I colored, realizing what I'd said. "Oh… sorry," I stammered, meaning it. "That was insensitive."
Trent's frown turned into a sly smirk. "Bump uglies?" he said, eyes on the table behind me. "You are a font of gutter slang, Rachel. We must do this again.
- Kim Harrison
For a Few Demons More
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, "I want to know why!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hannah knelt to get a closer look at the trail of holes. “Last night’s vandal wore stilettos.”
The two men stared at her, confused.
“English, please. You’re talking to country boys.
- Cricket Rohman
Colorado Takedown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else--the cold, and where he'd go in it--was outside, for a while anyway.
- Raymond Carver
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Reva often spoke about 'settling down.' That sounded like death to me.

'I'd rather be alone than anybody's live-in prostitute,' I said to Reva.
- Ottessa Moshfegh
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.
- M. Scott Peck
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions. I have found that what usually brings this lethargy on is if the woman displays some special kindness. Like making dinner.
- Eve Babitz
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties and down times are an indication of a lack of love rather than part of the process. In actuality, true love thrives of the difficulties. The foundation of such love is the assumption that we want to grow and expand, to become more fully ourselves. There is no change that does not bring with it a feeling of challenge and loss. When we experience true love it may feel as though our lives are in danger; we may feel threatened.
- bell hooks
All About Love: New Visions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.
- S.J. Watson
Before I Go to Sleep
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I had a dream about you last night. We stopped telling each other about our dreams when we realized we were still inside them.
- Michael Summers
I Had a Dream About You
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In love, treat your relationship as if you are growing the most beautiful flower. Keep watering it, tend to its roots, give it lots of sunlight, and always make sure the petals are full of color and are never curling. Once you neglect your plant, it will die, as will your relationship.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.
- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Mismatches destroy us all, even the most tender ones, and most never have the courage to break someone else's heart to follow their own.
- Amy Guth
Three Fallen Women
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fighting is a soldier’s only religion. But it has proven useful to adopt the religion of the country I wish to conquer.
- Rebecca Rosenberg
Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Just because lips have met doesn't mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn't mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal love.
- Joshua Harris
I Kissed Dating Goodbye: Study Guide
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?
- Simona Panova
Nightmarish Sacrifice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.
- Emily Giffin
Love the One You're With
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love will not be constrain'd by mastery.
When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon
Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone.
Love is a thing as any spirit free.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
- Joseph Ellis
His Excellency: George Washington
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Please don’t hate you??!! I hate that I love you. Loving you made me waste a year of my life. Loving
you made me be passionate about nothing but you. Loving you made me take risks I never would have
otherwise. Loving you made me give it up to you. Loving you made me neglect my parents and Amy.
Loving you made me not care that my grandma just died. Loving you made me turn out bitter and
hopeless like her. Loving you made me hate myself for being dumped by you. Loving you made me
deluded, irrational, inconsiderate, and a liar. And because I love you, you’re always going to haunt me.
- Daria Snadowsky
Anatomy of a Boyfriend
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there's very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, growing taller than most of the plants around it.
- Neesha Meminger
Shine, Coconut Moon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sure am glad I'm not royalty," I muttered. "I wouldn't want to have to bump uglies with someone I can't stand. On a regular basis. And no one else."
"Ow!" I exclaimed, trying to yank my fingers from Trent but finding them caught. Then I colored, realizing what I'd said. "Oh… sorry," I stammered, meaning it. "That was insensitive."
Trent's frown turned into a sly smirk. "Bump uglies?" he said, eyes on the table behind me. "You are a font of gutter slang, Rachel. We must do this again.
- Kim Harrison
For a Few Demons More
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, "I want to know why!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hannah knelt to get a closer look at the trail of holes. “Last night’s vandal wore stilettos.”
The two men stared at her, confused.
“English, please. You’re talking to country boys.
- Cricket Rohman
Colorado Takedown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else--the cold, and where he'd go in it--was outside, for a while anyway.
- Raymond Carver
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Reva often spoke about 'settling down.' That sounded like death to me.

'I'd rather be alone than anybody's live-in prostitute,' I said to Reva.
- Ottessa Moshfegh
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.
- M. Scott Peck
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions. I have found that what usually brings this lethargy on is if the woman displays some special kindness. Like making dinner.
- Eve Babitz
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties and down times are an indication of a lack of love rather than part of the process. In actuality, true love thrives of the difficulties. The foundation of such love is the assumption that we want to grow and expand, to become more fully ourselves. There is no change that does not bring with it a feeling of challenge and loss. When we experience true love it may feel as though our lives are in danger; we may feel threatened.
- bell hooks
All About Love: New Visions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.
- S.J. Watson
Before I Go to Sleep
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I had a dream about you last night. We stopped telling each other about our dreams when we realized we were still inside them.
- Michael Summers
I Had a Dream About You
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In love, treat your relationship as if you are growing the most beautiful flower. Keep watering it, tend to its roots, give it lots of sunlight, and always make sure the petals are full of color and are never curling. Once you neglect your plant, it will die, as will your relationship.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.
- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Mismatches destroy us all, even the most tender ones, and most never have the courage to break someone else's heart to follow their own.
- Amy Guth
Three Fallen Women
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fighting is a soldier’s only religion. But it has proven useful to adopt the religion of the country I wish to conquer.
- Rebecca Rosenberg
Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Just because lips have met doesn't mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn't mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal love.
- Joshua Harris
I Kissed Dating Goodbye: Study Guide
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?
- Simona Panova
Nightmarish Sacrifice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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