Quotes about Relationships

the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it--on the inside.

Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped form him - as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or just characters in one of my novels.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that...

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.

It was astonishing to think that life had once been the sum of her current love-affairs. It was now the sum of her current problems.

He says unloved women have no biographies—they have histories. Anthony laughed again. Surely