Quotes about Relationships

Love more, her aunt had said. Not less.

what does love matter in a world where it's so easy to hurt someone?

If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and amgels can't love the way men and women do.

Love was never a mistake, even when it wasn't returned.

In the human world you had to choose your loyalties carefully. You had to see through to someone's heart.

Frances was sulky and suspicious, while Jet was kindhearted and so sensitive that a negative remark could make her break into hives.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies: and the First combinations of mankind.

April certainly wasn't the first person to have fallen for Vincent, or the first to be wounded by his indifference. She'd been new and daring and exciting, but that had faded as time went on. Now she was just a girl who could easily be hurt.

If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and angels can't love the way men and women do.

He wasn't the first man she'd been with, and that hadn't been Bill back home either. It had been a boy she met on holiday when she was fifteen. She had decided it was time for her to have sex, the way someone else might decide it was time to get a driver's license, and she'd gone ahead with it. Pragmatic, that's the way she'd always been.

She didn't thank Ben, and she probably should have, but maybe he knows that she's grateful. Maybe he understands that saying thank you can be just as hard as saying good-bye.

That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do as imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.