QUOTES ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
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. Select Another Topic
He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.
- Kathryn Stockett
The Help
It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.
- Orson Scott Card
Enchantment
[On what young husbands should say to their wives:] I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we may be assured of not being separated in the life reserved for us... I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you.
- John Chrysostom
Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
- Richard Wright
He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.
- E M Forster
Maurice
A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.
- Keri Hulme
The Bone People
If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.
I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.
Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.
- Sarah Mlynowski
Gimme a Call
Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped
- Alan Sheinwald
Alan Sheinwald is Building a Perfect Home
She had more of me then I had of myself. We were both wild birds chasing the stars. We’d lose our way and find new places, close our eyes and fall back towards a constellation of dreams. We wrapped ourselves in a blanket of passion and each night we fell deeper without control, into this strange space called love.
It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a whole different person.
I want to take all our best moments, put them in a jar, and take them out like cookies and savor each one of them forever.
- Crystal Woods
Write like no one is reading
I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they’re making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there
- James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk
I think we go well together. I like being with you because I'm never bored. Even when we're not talking, even when we're not touching, even when we're not in the same room, I'm not bored. I'm never bored. I think it's because I have confidence in you, in your thoughts. Do you understand? I love everything I see in you, and everything I don't see. I know your faults, but as it turns out, I feel as though your faults go well with my qualities. We're not afraid of the same things. Even our inner demons go well together! You, you're worth more than you show...
- Anna Gavalda
Someone I Loved
It’s the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically
- Meg Jay
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart
- Kristi Maxwell
The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.
- Jodi Picoult
Lone Wolf
Ladies! I encourage you NOT to be so easily flattered by what a man has. Be flattered by his strength, courage, integrity, and character as a man. Be impressed by his ability to be honest, faithful, loving, and respectful to you. Be impressed because he can communicate and openly express his feelings. Be impressed because he’s got confidence, direction, and purpose in his life. Be impressed because he’s a quality man, NOT a fine man. Real Talk!
- Stephanie Lahart
Who does ever get what they want? It doesn’t seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It’s always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.
- Kent Haruf
Our Souls at Night
my only complaints are two:
that I didn't make myself ready
for you sooner in life, that
I can't give you better,
Love you more.
that I didn't make myself ready
for you sooner in life, that
I can't give you better,
Love you more.
- Jan Beatty
No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
Wintergirls
She’s glad it’s Shara. Nobody else would have felt important enough.
- Casey McQuiston
I Kissed Shara Wheeler
Instructions For Wayfarers
They will declare: Every journey has been taken.
You shall respond: I have not been to see myself.
They will insist: Everything has been spoken.
You shall reply: I have not had my say.
They will tell you: Everything has been done.
You shall reply: My way is not complete.
You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard.
Fear not. You are the gate - you, the gatekeeper.
And you shall go through and on . . .
—Alexandros Evangelou Xenopouloudakis,
THIRD WISH
They will declare: Every journey has been taken.
You shall respond: I have not been to see myself.
They will insist: Everything has been spoken.
You shall reply: I have not had my say.
They will tell you: Everything has been done.
You shall reply: My way is not complete.
You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard.
Fear not. You are the gate - you, the gatekeeper.
And you shall go through and on . . .
—Alexandros Evangelou Xenopouloudakis,
THIRD WISH
- Robert Fulghum
The Robert Fulghum/Boxed Set
He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.
- Kathryn Stockett
The Help
It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.
- Orson Scott Card
Enchantment
[On what young husbands should say to their wives:] I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we may be assured of not being separated in the life reserved for us... I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you.
- John Chrysostom
Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
- Richard Wright
He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.
- E M Forster
Maurice
A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.
- Keri Hulme
The Bone People
If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.
I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.
Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.
- Sarah Mlynowski
Gimme a Call
Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped
- Alan Sheinwald
Alan Sheinwald is Building a Perfect Home
She had more of me then I had of myself. We were both wild birds chasing the stars. We’d lose our way and find new places, close our eyes and fall back towards a constellation of dreams. We wrapped ourselves in a blanket of passion and each night we fell deeper without control, into this strange space called love.
It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a whole different person.
I want to take all our best moments, put them in a jar, and take them out like cookies and savor each one of them forever.
- Crystal Woods
Write like no one is reading
I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they’re making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there
- James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk
I think we go well together. I like being with you because I'm never bored. Even when we're not talking, even when we're not touching, even when we're not in the same room, I'm not bored. I'm never bored. I think it's because I have confidence in you, in your thoughts. Do you understand? I love everything I see in you, and everything I don't see. I know your faults, but as it turns out, I feel as though your faults go well with my qualities. We're not afraid of the same things. Even our inner demons go well together! You, you're worth more than you show...
- Anna Gavalda
Someone I Loved
It’s the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically
- Meg Jay
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart
- Kristi Maxwell
The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.
- Jodi Picoult
Lone Wolf
Ladies! I encourage you NOT to be so easily flattered by what a man has. Be flattered by his strength, courage, integrity, and character as a man. Be impressed by his ability to be honest, faithful, loving, and respectful to you. Be impressed because he can communicate and openly express his feelings. Be impressed because he’s got confidence, direction, and purpose in his life. Be impressed because he’s a quality man, NOT a fine man. Real Talk!
- Stephanie Lahart
Who does ever get what they want? It doesn’t seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It’s always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.
- Kent Haruf
Our Souls at Night
my only complaints are two:
that I didn't make myself ready
for you sooner in life, that
I can't give you better,
Love you more.
that I didn't make myself ready
for you sooner in life, that
I can't give you better,
Love you more.
- Jan Beatty
No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
Wintergirls
She’s glad it’s Shara. Nobody else would have felt important enough.
- Casey McQuiston
I Kissed Shara Wheeler
Instructions For Wayfarers
They will declare: Every journey has been taken.
You shall respond: I have not been to see myself.
They will insist: Everything has been spoken.
You shall reply: I have not had my say.
They will tell you: Everything has been done.
You shall reply: My way is not complete.
You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard.
Fear not. You are the gate - you, the gatekeeper.
And you shall go through and on . . .
—Alexandros Evangelou Xenopouloudakis,
THIRD WISH
They will declare: Every journey has been taken.
You shall respond: I have not been to see myself.
They will insist: Everything has been spoken.
You shall reply: I have not had my say.
They will tell you: Everything has been done.
You shall reply: My way is not complete.
You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard.
Fear not. You are the gate - you, the gatekeeper.
And you shall go through and on . . .
—Alexandros Evangelou Xenopouloudakis,
THIRD WISH
- Robert Fulghum
The Robert Fulghum/Boxed Set
He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.
- Kathryn Stockett
The Help
It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.
- Orson Scott Card
Enchantment
[On what young husbands should say to their wives:] I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we may be assured of not being separated in the life reserved for us... I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you.
- John Chrysostom
Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
- Richard Wright
He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.
- E M Forster
Maurice
A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.
- Keri Hulme
The Bone People
If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.
I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.
Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.
- Sarah Mlynowski
Gimme a Call
Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped
- Alan Sheinwald
Alan Sheinwald is Building a Perfect Home
She had more of me then I had of myself. We were both wild birds chasing the stars. We’d lose our way and find new places, close our eyes and fall back towards a constellation of dreams. We wrapped ourselves in a blanket of passion and each night we fell deeper without control, into this strange space called love.
It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a whole different person.
I want to take all our best moments, put them in a jar, and take them out like cookies and savor each one of them forever.
- Crystal Woods
Write like no one is reading
I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they’re making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there
- James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk
I think we go well together. I like being with you because I'm never bored. Even when we're not talking, even when we're not touching, even when we're not in the same room, I'm not bored. I'm never bored. I think it's because I have confidence in you, in your thoughts. Do you understand? I love everything I see in you, and everything I don't see. I know your faults, but as it turns out, I feel as though your faults go well with my qualities. We're not afraid of the same things. Even our inner demons go well together! You, you're worth more than you show...
- Anna Gavalda
Someone I Loved
It’s the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically
- Meg Jay
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart
- Kristi Maxwell
The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.
- Jodi Picoult
Lone Wolf
Ladies! I encourage you NOT to be so easily flattered by what a man has. Be flattered by his strength, courage, integrity, and character as a man. Be impressed by his ability to be honest, faithful, loving, and respectful to you. Be impressed because he can communicate and openly express his feelings. Be impressed because he’s got confidence, direction, and purpose in his life. Be impressed because he’s a quality man, NOT a fine man. Real Talk!
- Stephanie Lahart
Who does ever get what they want? It doesn’t seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It’s always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.
- Kent Haruf
Our Souls at Night
my only complaints are two:
that I didn't make myself ready
for you sooner in life, that
I can't give you better,
Love you more.
that I didn't make myself ready
for you sooner in life, that
I can't give you better,
Love you more.
- Jan Beatty
No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
Wintergirls
She’s glad it’s Shara. Nobody else would have felt important enough.
- Casey McQuiston
I Kissed Shara Wheeler
Instructions For Wayfarers
They will declare: Every journey has been taken.
You shall respond: I have not been to see myself.
They will insist: Everything has been spoken.
You shall reply: I have not had my say.
They will tell you: Everything has been done.
You shall reply: My way is not complete.
You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard.
Fear not. You are the gate - you, the gatekeeper.
And you shall go through and on . . .
—Alexandros Evangelou Xenopouloudakis,
THIRD WISH
They will declare: Every journey has been taken.
You shall respond: I have not been to see myself.
They will insist: Everything has been spoken.
You shall reply: I have not had my say.
They will tell you: Everything has been done.
You shall reply: My way is not complete.
You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard.
Fear not. You are the gate - you, the gatekeeper.
And you shall go through and on . . .
—Alexandros Evangelou Xenopouloudakis,
THIRD WISH
- Robert Fulghum
The Robert Fulghum/Boxed Set