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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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People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
- Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun
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I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.
- Loretta Ellsworth
In a Heartbeat
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As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions
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Kate lost a mother," I said, "but I lost a nothing."
Kate doesn't feel that way," Jack assured me.
But what about everybody else besides Kate? How can I ever explain to anyone what she was when she and I had no name? People need names for everything. I wasn't a relative or a friend, I was just an object of her kindness."
He wiped my cheeks, saying Ssshh. I buried my face in his shoulder.
True kindness is stabilizing," I went on. "When you feel it and when you express it, it becomes the whole meaning of things. Like all there is to achieve. It's life, demystified. A place out of self, a network of simple pleasures, not a waltz, but like whirls within a waltz."
You're the one now," Jack said definitively. "That's why you met her. She had something she had to pass on." (p. 95)
- Hilary Thayer Hamann
Anthropology of an American Girl
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It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.
- Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
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I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.
- Lisa Kleypas
Blue-Eyed Devil
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
- Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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All I'm telling you to do is to be smart about it. Know that if this man isn't looking for a serious relationship, you're not going to change his mind just because you two are going on dates and being intimate. You could be the most perfect woman on the Lord's green earth-you're capable of interesting conversation, you cook a mean breakfast, you hand out backrubs like sandwiches, you're independent (which means, to him, that you're not going to be in his pockets)-but if he's not ready for a serious relationship, he going to treat you like sports fish.
- Steve Harvey
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
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only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet
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We kiss all the time." I clear my throat, then add, "We just...do it in private."
"A smug expression crosses his face. "I don't buy it for a second, 'cause if you were my girlfriend and a stud like me was livin' in your house, I'd kiss you in front of the guy every chance I got as a reminder."
"A reminder of w-w-what?"
"That you were mine.
- Simone Elkeles
Rules of Attraction
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Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.
- Katerina Stoykova Klemer
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That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough.
- Jenny Han
It's Not Summer Without You
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I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.
- Brené Brown
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When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.
- Deepak Chopra
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misgivings, n.

Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us.
"There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.
- David Levithan
The Lover's Dictionary
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I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.
- Dorothy Parker
The Portable Dorothy Parker
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You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.
- Jodi Picoult
Sing You Home
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Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.
- Tiffany Madison
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Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.
- Timothy Keller
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One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.
- Brian Weiss
Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love
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He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.
- Justina Chen Headley
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People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.
- Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
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The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find
someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is
futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone
who is capable of significant change; that sort of person
exists only in our imaginations.
- Scott Adams
God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
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People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
- Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun
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I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.
- Loretta Ellsworth
In a Heartbeat
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As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions
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Kate lost a mother," I said, "but I lost a nothing."
Kate doesn't feel that way," Jack assured me.
But what about everybody else besides Kate? How can I ever explain to anyone what she was when she and I had no name? People need names for everything. I wasn't a relative or a friend, I was just an object of her kindness."
He wiped my cheeks, saying Ssshh. I buried my face in his shoulder.
True kindness is stabilizing," I went on. "When you feel it and when you express it, it becomes the whole meaning of things. Like all there is to achieve. It's life, demystified. A place out of self, a network of simple pleasures, not a waltz, but like whirls within a waltz."
You're the one now," Jack said definitively. "That's why you met her. She had something she had to pass on." (p. 95)
- Hilary Thayer Hamann
Anthropology of an American Girl
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It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.
- Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
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I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.
- Lisa Kleypas
Blue-Eyed Devil
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
- Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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All I'm telling you to do is to be smart about it. Know that if this man isn't looking for a serious relationship, you're not going to change his mind just because you two are going on dates and being intimate. You could be the most perfect woman on the Lord's green earth-you're capable of interesting conversation, you cook a mean breakfast, you hand out backrubs like sandwiches, you're independent (which means, to him, that you're not going to be in his pockets)-but if he's not ready for a serious relationship, he going to treat you like sports fish.
- Steve Harvey
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
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only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet
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We kiss all the time." I clear my throat, then add, "We just...do it in private."
"A smug expression crosses his face. "I don't buy it for a second, 'cause if you were my girlfriend and a stud like me was livin' in your house, I'd kiss you in front of the guy every chance I got as a reminder."
"A reminder of w-w-what?"
"That you were mine.
- Simone Elkeles
Rules of Attraction
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.
- Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough.
- Jenny Han
It's Not Summer Without You
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I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.
- Brené Brown
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When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.
- Deepak Chopra
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misgivings, n.

Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us.
"There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.
- David Levithan
The Lover's Dictionary
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I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.
- Dorothy Parker
The Portable Dorothy Parker
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You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.
- Jodi Picoult
Sing You Home
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Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.
- Tiffany Madison
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.
- Timothy Keller
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.
- Brian Weiss
Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.
- Justina Chen Headley
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.
- Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find
someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is
futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone
who is capable of significant change; that sort of person
exists only in our imaginations.
- Scott Adams
God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
- Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.
- Loretta Ellsworth
In a Heartbeat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Kate lost a mother," I said, "but I lost a nothing."
Kate doesn't feel that way," Jack assured me.
But what about everybody else besides Kate? How can I ever explain to anyone what she was when she and I had no name? People need names for everything. I wasn't a relative or a friend, I was just an object of her kindness."
He wiped my cheeks, saying Ssshh. I buried my face in his shoulder.
True kindness is stabilizing," I went on. "When you feel it and when you express it, it becomes the whole meaning of things. Like all there is to achieve. It's life, demystified. A place out of self, a network of simple pleasures, not a waltz, but like whirls within a waltz."
You're the one now," Jack said definitively. "That's why you met her. She had something she had to pass on." (p. 95)
- Hilary Thayer Hamann
Anthropology of an American Girl
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.
- Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.
- Lisa Kleypas
Blue-Eyed Devil
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
- Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All I'm telling you to do is to be smart about it. Know that if this man isn't looking for a serious relationship, you're not going to change his mind just because you two are going on dates and being intimate. You could be the most perfect woman on the Lord's green earth-you're capable of interesting conversation, you cook a mean breakfast, you hand out backrubs like sandwiches, you're independent (which means, to him, that you're not going to be in his pockets)-but if he's not ready for a serious relationship, he going to treat you like sports fish.
- Steve Harvey
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We kiss all the time." I clear my throat, then add, "We just...do it in private."
"A smug expression crosses his face. "I don't buy it for a second, 'cause if you were my girlfriend and a stud like me was livin' in your house, I'd kiss you in front of the guy every chance I got as a reminder."
"A reminder of w-w-what?"
"That you were mine.
- Simone Elkeles
Rules of Attraction
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.
- Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough.
- Jenny Han
It's Not Summer Without You
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.
- Brené Brown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.
- Deepak Chopra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
misgivings, n.

Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us.
"There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.
- David Levithan
The Lover's Dictionary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.
- Dorothy Parker
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.
- Jodi Picoult
Sing You Home
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.
- Tiffany Madison
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.
- Timothy Keller
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.
- Brian Weiss
Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.
- Justina Chen Headley
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.
- Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find
someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is
futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone
who is capable of significant change; that sort of person
exists only in our imaginations.
- Scott Adams
God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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