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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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He opened his mouth to say that she looked extremely beautiful and deserved armfuls of roses, but the words were lost in committee somewhere, shuffled aside by the parts of his head that worked full-time at avoiding ridicule.
- Helen Simonson
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences will emerge and conflicts will happen. Positively, we also assume that we will be “safe“ in those moments; that even if voices are raised and emotions expressed are intense, there will not be and should not be any abuse or any reason to be unsafe, and that the will to connect and communicate will prevail.
- bell hooks
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
I wonder
if you ever read my poems
and wish
they were written
for you.
Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none.
- Gore Vidal
The City and the Pillar
When coming to sex: First served, first come.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.
- Derrick Bell
Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth
Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don’t understand that the culture really isn’t offering us all of these options – there still are very strong pressures to conform. We have to step outside the culture to be able to make choices that will really give us what we want. But we lack the psychic mechanisms to do this, to really choose.
- Dalma Heyn
As I walked inside, she turned around and headed for the end of the bed. Then she paused and turned to face me. She was wearing her Orchard Hill basketball T-shirt and sweatpants and she looked tired, but beautiful.
- Kieran Scott
He's So Not Worth It
You have dirty hands and dark wild eyes, but by far you are the purest heart I have ever known.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies.
- Roberto Hogue
Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
I know what you want, darlin'. You go on and ask me nicely and you might just get it.
- Eve Dangerfield
Degrees of Control
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
- Grace Kelly
There is no guilt in feelings ever.
- Erich Maria Remarque
Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
In love, we don’t need everyone to want us. We only need one person.
- Matthew Hussey
Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
A quiet realization would be more poetic—something as quotidian as showing back up. Choosing each other when there's no fanfare.
- Emery Lord
The Map from Here to There
Security comes first from inside of you. Then, if you are very lucky, you will be in a position to find other people who also possess that same sort of security, and build some sort of family or community as a team.
- Anthony D. Ravenscroft
Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful
....whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.
- George Eliot
Middlemarch
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see.
- D. H. Lawrence
Sons and lovers + Lady Chatterley's lover
When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card.
(Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)
- Sophie Kinsella
Twenties Girl
It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
- Amy Bloom
When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.
- Sharon Salzberg
Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
I have an attraction to strange
and unusual things.
I find them interesting,
spellbinding,
utterly fascinating.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
He opened his mouth to say that she looked extremely beautiful and deserved armfuls of roses, but the words were lost in committee somewhere, shuffled aside by the parts of his head that worked full-time at avoiding ridicule.
- Helen Simonson
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences will emerge and conflicts will happen. Positively, we also assume that we will be “safe“ in those moments; that even if voices are raised and emotions expressed are intense, there will not be and should not be any abuse or any reason to be unsafe, and that the will to connect and communicate will prevail.
- bell hooks
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
I wonder
if you ever read my poems
and wish
they were written
for you.
Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none.
- Gore Vidal
The City and the Pillar
When coming to sex: First served, first come.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.
- Derrick Bell
Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth
Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don’t understand that the culture really isn’t offering us all of these options – there still are very strong pressures to conform. We have to step outside the culture to be able to make choices that will really give us what we want. But we lack the psychic mechanisms to do this, to really choose.
- Dalma Heyn
As I walked inside, she turned around and headed for the end of the bed. Then she paused and turned to face me. She was wearing her Orchard Hill basketball T-shirt and sweatpants and she looked tired, but beautiful.
- Kieran Scott
He's So Not Worth It
You have dirty hands and dark wild eyes, but by far you are the purest heart I have ever known.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies.
- Roberto Hogue
Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
I know what you want, darlin'. You go on and ask me nicely and you might just get it.
- Eve Dangerfield
Degrees of Control
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
- Grace Kelly
There is no guilt in feelings ever.
- Erich Maria Remarque
Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
In love, we don’t need everyone to want us. We only need one person.
- Matthew Hussey
Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
A quiet realization would be more poetic—something as quotidian as showing back up. Choosing each other when there's no fanfare.
- Emery Lord
The Map from Here to There
Security comes first from inside of you. Then, if you are very lucky, you will be in a position to find other people who also possess that same sort of security, and build some sort of family or community as a team.
- Anthony D. Ravenscroft
Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful
....whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.
- George Eliot
Middlemarch
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see.
- D. H. Lawrence
Sons and lovers + Lady Chatterley's lover
When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card.
(Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)
- Sophie Kinsella
Twenties Girl
It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
- Amy Bloom
When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.
- Sharon Salzberg
Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
I have an attraction to strange
and unusual things.
I find them interesting,
spellbinding,
utterly fascinating.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
He opened his mouth to say that she looked extremely beautiful and deserved armfuls of roses, but the words were lost in committee somewhere, shuffled aside by the parts of his head that worked full-time at avoiding ridicule.
- Helen Simonson
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences will emerge and conflicts will happen. Positively, we also assume that we will be “safe“ in those moments; that even if voices are raised and emotions expressed are intense, there will not be and should not be any abuse or any reason to be unsafe, and that the will to connect and communicate will prevail.
- bell hooks
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
I wonder
if you ever read my poems
and wish
they were written
for you.
Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none.
- Gore Vidal
The City and the Pillar
When coming to sex: First served, first come.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.
- Derrick Bell
Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth
Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don’t understand that the culture really isn’t offering us all of these options – there still are very strong pressures to conform. We have to step outside the culture to be able to make choices that will really give us what we want. But we lack the psychic mechanisms to do this, to really choose.
- Dalma Heyn
As I walked inside, she turned around and headed for the end of the bed. Then she paused and turned to face me. She was wearing her Orchard Hill basketball T-shirt and sweatpants and she looked tired, but beautiful.
- Kieran Scott
He's So Not Worth It
You have dirty hands and dark wild eyes, but by far you are the purest heart I have ever known.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies.
- Roberto Hogue
Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
I know what you want, darlin'. You go on and ask me nicely and you might just get it.
- Eve Dangerfield
Degrees of Control
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
- Grace Kelly
There is no guilt in feelings ever.
- Erich Maria Remarque
Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
In love, we don’t need everyone to want us. We only need one person.
- Matthew Hussey
Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
A quiet realization would be more poetic—something as quotidian as showing back up. Choosing each other when there's no fanfare.
- Emery Lord
The Map from Here to There
Security comes first from inside of you. Then, if you are very lucky, you will be in a position to find other people who also possess that same sort of security, and build some sort of family or community as a team.
- Anthony D. Ravenscroft
Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful
....whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.
- George Eliot
Middlemarch
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see.
- D. H. Lawrence
Sons and lovers + Lady Chatterley's lover
When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card.
(Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)
- Sophie Kinsella
Twenties Girl
It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
- Amy Bloom
When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.
- Sharon Salzberg
Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
I have an attraction to strange
and unusual things.
I find them interesting,
spellbinding,
utterly fascinating.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
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