Quotes on “relationships”

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.

My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.

One of the most difficult things he'd ever done was turn away and leave her standing in the shadows.

You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.

I could’ve sworn I was telling the truth when I told you I didn’t miss you.

You can be in love and you can be in a relationship. But they’re not always the same thing.

Cheating and lying aren't struggles, they're reasons to break up.

The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

To wisely live your life, you don't need to know muchJust remember two main rules for the beginning:You better starve, than eat whateverAnd better be alone, than with whoever.

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.

Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.