relationship

"Mine Enemy is growing old --I have at last Revenge --The Palate of the Hate departs --If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits --It is a faded Meat --Anger as soon as fed is dead --'Tis starving makes it fat"

"Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right."

"A follow-up letter is best when not written on the back of a suicide note. Remember this next time you’re at a networking event, unless your new connection is a mortician."

"Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books."

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."

"Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

"You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures."

"All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda."

"Life, it’s made up of two things—time and love. A watch tells one, but what tells the other? We tell each other."

"I had a dream about you. We installed Dr. Robert Jarvik’s artificial heart in a mannequin and brought it to life, only to later kill it because a creature that’s all fake heart and no brain is what’s commonly called a “politician,” and must be destroyed."

"The word long is short, and so is the word short, but why is the word love as long as long? Shouldn’t it be longer?"

"[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out."

"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."

"Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love."

"Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together."

"For your birthday I got you some batteries. They’re dead, just like you’ll soon be."

"I had a dream about you. You suggested to split the profits, so I did. I threw one half in the furnace to power the steam engine, and the other half in the air to distract our pursuers."

"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."

"I have a Rubik’s Cube for a rearview mirror, because the past is the only time puzzle I can solve. My love for her only looks clear there."