relationship

"Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you."

"It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal."

"I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world’s most perfect haiku."

"To be angry is easy, but to forgive is hard. That's why to love is easy, and to love is hard. I try to be so hard that I'm soft, like a liquid rock, fluid and forgiving, but unmovable in my resolve."

"She said she loved me, and I believed her, because she was looking directly at another man when she said it."

"My girlfriend bought me a collared shirt for my birthday, mainly so I don’t get too far ahead of her when she takes me for a walk."

"A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension."

"Lightning doesn’t thunder twice. Let that be a lesson in love."

"For someone who is supposed to be a knight in shining armor, you're acting like an ass in aluminum foil."

"In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer."

"Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier."

"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."

"I have a Rubik’s Cube for a heart, and my love for you is no puzzle. Through twists and spins, life can only get more colorful."

"What is it about men that make women so lonely?"

"When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment."

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."

"We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you."

"Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having."

"I had a dream about you. We couldn't decide on a sunrise. You wanted a tan, I only cared about the view. Then World War III fulfilled both our desires."

"This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes."