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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. Select Another Topic
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You want to drive it.”
“Me? I’m only twelve.”
“I didn’t ask you how old you are. Do you want to drive the tractor?
- R. Gerry Fabian
Just Out Of Reach
There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.
Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.
- Donald Miller
I had a dream about you last night. We went to the store cupboard to make out, but we ended up sharing our pain and then crying together. We wasn't prepared for this level of intimacy.
- Michael Summers
I Had a Dream About You
I had a dream about you. You were being hung. I had a sword in one hand and a stool in the other. I couldn’t decide which one to use, so I stood on the stool and threw myself on the sword. It was the least I could do to protest capital punishment.
- Bauvard
I Had a Dream About You
Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement."

It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live.
- Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
If I knew how a lot of my relationships would have turned out, I never would have gotten involved in them... And I would have missed out on some of the best times in my life.
- L.A. Witt
Rules of Engagement
Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other names and cry, and grown women who are sisters will say words so cruel that each syllable will take on the form of a snake, although such a snake often circles in on itself to eat its own tail once the words are said aloud.
- Alice Hoffman
Practical Magic
being together was as easy and natural as being alone, without any of the loneliness
- Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation
To make him important in one’s life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never knows when to quit.
- Carrie Fisher
The Princess Diarist
Lovers do things together! They rent videos, they ride Ferris wheels, they go out for pizza, they play Scrabble. They . . . they talk!'

'Talk?' He lifted his head and frowned, his eyes puzzled. 'We talk all the time, Raine. I've never had such talkative sex.'

'That's just it!' She wiggled, flailed, but couldn't budge him. 'Two minutes alone with you, and I'm flat on my back. Every single time!'

A slow, knowing grin spread over his face. 'Is this your way of telling me you want to be on top?
- Shannon McKenna
Behind Closed Doors
It happens the world over - we love ourselves more than we do the one we say we love. We all want to be Number One, we've got to be Number One or nothing! We can't see that we could make ourselves loved and needed in the Number Two, or Three, or Four spot. No sir, we've got to be Number One, and if we can't make it, we'll rip and tear at the loved one till we've ruined every smidgin of love that was ever there.
- Irene Hunt
Up a Road Slowly
Just because he likes the same bizzaro crap as you doesn't mean he's your soul mate.
- Rachel Hansen
This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.
- Adriana Trigiani
Viola in Reel Life
Look at someone every day for long enough and you stop seeing what everyone else sees. You start to see what no one else sees, what is kept hidden from most people.
- Melanie Golding
Little Darlings
If I had to get there without friends, I could do it. Had been doing it. I'd never met anyone who brought me somewhere I wanted to stay, looked at me and saw someone I wanted to be for good; anyone who was worth giving up the more I wanted down the line.
- Tana French
The Secret Place
They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Somewhere underneath it all, I know he doesn't deserve to take up space in my brain.
- Susane Colasanti
Take Me There
It’s funny how many ways there are to hurt people. As many ways to hurt as there are species of flower. Whole bouquets of hurt.
- Joshua Gaylord
When We Were Animals
It's the opposite of the collapse of the fantasy.

It's what happens when the illusion pales in comparison to the truth. I'm seeing her for the first time. Not Ava Garden Wilder, the rags-to-riches granddaughter of Clyde Jones. Not a tragic, romantic heroine.

Just Ava.

And I am utterly in love.
- Nina LaCour
Everything Leads to You
Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you.
When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex. It would be impolite not to have sex. You have to show that you are serious about each other.
- Adam Thirlwell
Politics
Long after people forget what you said or did, they’ll remember how you made them feel.
- T. Rafael Cimino
A Battle of Angels
My Personality

unfolding before you
like a Swiss Army knife.
- Katerina Stoykova Klemer
The Air Around the Butterfly / Въздухът около пеперудата
You want to drive it.”
“Me? I’m only twelve.”
“I didn’t ask you how old you are. Do you want to drive the tractor?
- R. Gerry Fabian
Just Out Of Reach
There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.
Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.
- Donald Miller
I had a dream about you last night. We went to the store cupboard to make out, but we ended up sharing our pain and then crying together. We wasn't prepared for this level of intimacy.
- Michael Summers
I Had a Dream About You
I had a dream about you. You were being hung. I had a sword in one hand and a stool in the other. I couldn’t decide which one to use, so I stood on the stool and threw myself on the sword. It was the least I could do to protest capital punishment.
- Bauvard
I Had a Dream About You
Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement."

It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live.
- Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
If I knew how a lot of my relationships would have turned out, I never would have gotten involved in them... And I would have missed out on some of the best times in my life.
- L.A. Witt
Rules of Engagement
Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other names and cry, and grown women who are sisters will say words so cruel that each syllable will take on the form of a snake, although such a snake often circles in on itself to eat its own tail once the words are said aloud.
- Alice Hoffman
Practical Magic
being together was as easy and natural as being alone, without any of the loneliness
- Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation
To make him important in one’s life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never knows when to quit.
- Carrie Fisher
The Princess Diarist
Lovers do things together! They rent videos, they ride Ferris wheels, they go out for pizza, they play Scrabble. They . . . they talk!'

'Talk?' He lifted his head and frowned, his eyes puzzled. 'We talk all the time, Raine. I've never had such talkative sex.'

'That's just it!' She wiggled, flailed, but couldn't budge him. 'Two minutes alone with you, and I'm flat on my back. Every single time!'

A slow, knowing grin spread over his face. 'Is this your way of telling me you want to be on top?
- Shannon McKenna
Behind Closed Doors
It happens the world over - we love ourselves more than we do the one we say we love. We all want to be Number One, we've got to be Number One or nothing! We can't see that we could make ourselves loved and needed in the Number Two, or Three, or Four spot. No sir, we've got to be Number One, and if we can't make it, we'll rip and tear at the loved one till we've ruined every smidgin of love that was ever there.
- Irene Hunt
Up a Road Slowly
Just because he likes the same bizzaro crap as you doesn't mean he's your soul mate.
- Rachel Hansen
This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.
- Adriana Trigiani
Viola in Reel Life
Look at someone every day for long enough and you stop seeing what everyone else sees. You start to see what no one else sees, what is kept hidden from most people.
- Melanie Golding
Little Darlings
If I had to get there without friends, I could do it. Had been doing it. I'd never met anyone who brought me somewhere I wanted to stay, looked at me and saw someone I wanted to be for good; anyone who was worth giving up the more I wanted down the line.
- Tana French
The Secret Place
They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Somewhere underneath it all, I know he doesn't deserve to take up space in my brain.
- Susane Colasanti
Take Me There
It’s funny how many ways there are to hurt people. As many ways to hurt as there are species of flower. Whole bouquets of hurt.
- Joshua Gaylord
When We Were Animals
It's the opposite of the collapse of the fantasy.

It's what happens when the illusion pales in comparison to the truth. I'm seeing her for the first time. Not Ava Garden Wilder, the rags-to-riches granddaughter of Clyde Jones. Not a tragic, romantic heroine.

Just Ava.

And I am utterly in love.
- Nina LaCour
Everything Leads to You
Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you.
When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex. It would be impolite not to have sex. You have to show that you are serious about each other.
- Adam Thirlwell
Politics
Long after people forget what you said or did, they’ll remember how you made them feel.
- T. Rafael Cimino
A Battle of Angels
My Personality

unfolding before you
like a Swiss Army knife.
- Katerina Stoykova Klemer
The Air Around the Butterfly / Въздухът около пеперудата
You want to drive it.”
“Me? I’m only twelve.”
“I didn’t ask you how old you are. Do you want to drive the tractor?
- R. Gerry Fabian
Just Out Of Reach
There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.
Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.
- Donald Miller
I had a dream about you last night. We went to the store cupboard to make out, but we ended up sharing our pain and then crying together. We wasn't prepared for this level of intimacy.
- Michael Summers
I Had a Dream About You
I had a dream about you. You were being hung. I had a sword in one hand and a stool in the other. I couldn’t decide which one to use, so I stood on the stool and threw myself on the sword. It was the least I could do to protest capital punishment.
- Bauvard
I Had a Dream About You
Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement."

It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live.
- Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
If I knew how a lot of my relationships would have turned out, I never would have gotten involved in them... And I would have missed out on some of the best times in my life.
- L.A. Witt
Rules of Engagement
Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other names and cry, and grown women who are sisters will say words so cruel that each syllable will take on the form of a snake, although such a snake often circles in on itself to eat its own tail once the words are said aloud.
- Alice Hoffman
Practical Magic
being together was as easy and natural as being alone, without any of the loneliness
- Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation
To make him important in one’s life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never knows when to quit.
- Carrie Fisher
The Princess Diarist
Lovers do things together! They rent videos, they ride Ferris wheels, they go out for pizza, they play Scrabble. They . . . they talk!'

'Talk?' He lifted his head and frowned, his eyes puzzled. 'We talk all the time, Raine. I've never had such talkative sex.'

'That's just it!' She wiggled, flailed, but couldn't budge him. 'Two minutes alone with you, and I'm flat on my back. Every single time!'

A slow, knowing grin spread over his face. 'Is this your way of telling me you want to be on top?
- Shannon McKenna
Behind Closed Doors
It happens the world over - we love ourselves more than we do the one we say we love. We all want to be Number One, we've got to be Number One or nothing! We can't see that we could make ourselves loved and needed in the Number Two, or Three, or Four spot. No sir, we've got to be Number One, and if we can't make it, we'll rip and tear at the loved one till we've ruined every smidgin of love that was ever there.
- Irene Hunt
Up a Road Slowly
Just because he likes the same bizzaro crap as you doesn't mean he's your soul mate.
- Rachel Hansen
This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.
- Adriana Trigiani
Viola in Reel Life
Look at someone every day for long enough and you stop seeing what everyone else sees. You start to see what no one else sees, what is kept hidden from most people.
- Melanie Golding
Little Darlings
If I had to get there without friends, I could do it. Had been doing it. I'd never met anyone who brought me somewhere I wanted to stay, looked at me and saw someone I wanted to be for good; anyone who was worth giving up the more I wanted down the line.
- Tana French
The Secret Place
They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Somewhere underneath it all, I know he doesn't deserve to take up space in my brain.
- Susane Colasanti
Take Me There
It’s funny how many ways there are to hurt people. As many ways to hurt as there are species of flower. Whole bouquets of hurt.
- Joshua Gaylord
When We Were Animals
It's the opposite of the collapse of the fantasy.

It's what happens when the illusion pales in comparison to the truth. I'm seeing her for the first time. Not Ava Garden Wilder, the rags-to-riches granddaughter of Clyde Jones. Not a tragic, romantic heroine.

Just Ava.

And I am utterly in love.
- Nina LaCour
Everything Leads to You
Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you.
When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex. It would be impolite not to have sex. You have to show that you are serious about each other.
- Adam Thirlwell
Politics
Long after people forget what you said or did, they’ll remember how you made them feel.
- T. Rafael Cimino
A Battle of Angels
My Personality

unfolding before you
like a Swiss Army knife.
- Katerina Stoykova Klemer
The Air Around the Butterfly / Въздухът около пеперудата
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