Quotes about Relationships

Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.

It's Cash and Jewel and Varadaman and Dewey Del', pa says kind of hangdog and proud too, with this teeth and all, even if he wouldn't look at us. 'Meet Mrs Bundren', he says.

I kept thinking that. I don't know why it is I can't seem to learn that a woman'll do anything.

If you are going to write, write about human nature. That is the only thing that doesn't date.

the father who is the natural enemy of any son and son-in-law of whom the mother is the ally, just as after the wedding the father will be the ally of the actual son-in-law who has for mortal foe the mother of his wife.

I'm scared of him, said Piggy, and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again, it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.

There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.

Walking in love means giving the other person what he or she needs the most when it is least deserved, because that's exactly how God has treated you.

If you attempt to build intimacy with a person before you've done the hard work of becoming a whole and healthy person, every relationship will be an attempt to complete the hole in your heart and the lack of what you don't have. That relationship will end in disaster.

Love says, "I'm with you, let's deal with it.

Interestingly, there has been significant research done with people experiencing what we call infatuation. When we have this experience we could call falling into infatuation (or falling into romantic interest), chemicals are secreted in the brain, causing light-headedness, dizziness, and a flood of emotions that we can't explain. Certain people trigger that kind of response in us. We are almost instantly drawn to them.

Some of the dumbest things we do are done out of anger and bitterness when someone has wronged us.