“ Being honest in a relationship is at times exceedingly difficult and painful. Yet the moment a person evades the truth, central fibers of the self pull away and the person initiates a process of decep… Clark Mustakas
“ In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people. Wayne W. Dyer
“ Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall. Doug Fetherling
“ People have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well. Stephen R. Covey
“ You ought to take more chances, I said. I took too many earlier, she said. I'm sorry. Larry McMurtry
“ Why is it, he said, one time, at the subway entrance, I feel I've known you so many years?Because I like you, she said, and I don't want anything from you. Ray Bradbury
“ This time, something different happens, though. It’s the daydreaming that does it. I’m doing the usualthing—imagining in tiny detail the entire course of the relationship, from first kiss, to bed, to… Nick Hornby
“ This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.Love is not possessive.Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas… Elisabeth Elliot
“ There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. Mitch Albom
“ The vast desire and capacity a woman has for intimate relationships tells us of God's vast desire and capacity for intimate relationships. In fact, this may be The most important thing we ever learn a… Stasi Eldredge
“ The blame of course belonged to Clyde, who just was not much given to talk. Also, he seemed very little curious himself: Grady, alarmed sometimes by the meagerness of his inquiries and the indifferenc… Truman Capote
“ That part of the press release about me asking your father’s permission to marry you was true—well, partly true, anyway. I didn’t ask permission—I knew you wouldn’t like that, it’s sexist. You’re not… Meg Cabot
“ She's such a lovely woman, he'd tell me time and time again. I'd nod, because my mom is such a lovely woman. And charming and smart. Can't argue with any of that. She's also a fucking wack job. Lisa Gardner
“ Pablo's many stories and reminiscences about Olga and Marie-Thérese and Dora Maar, as well as their continuing presence just offstage in our own life together, gradually made me realize that he had a… Francoise Gilot
“ Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immova… Haruki Murakami
“ No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I… Sherwood Smith
“ Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you fore you fall. Go as far inside as you need to, I’ll hold your ankles. Make sure you get back out. I’m not saying this because I need… Toni Morrison
“ If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains. Charles Bukowski
“ But you smiled at me and said consolingly, People come back again.Yes I said, they come back, but then they have forgotten.There must have been something odd, something passionate in the way I said th… Stefan Zweig
