relationship

"I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones."

"Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When "I"is replaced by "We", illness becomes wellness."

"During my darkest hour, life threw me some curves. Thankfully they were in the shape of a woman’s body."

"I realize the thing about a guy you've spent your whole life loving from afar is that even though he's real you've really made most of him up."

"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."

"I asked for info, and he offered it for a price. Now I’m selling him my security services, and if he doesn’t pay me, I’m going to give him a karate lesson—for free."

"Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved."

"People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future."

"Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them."

"Nostalgia is being blind to the bad and only remembering the good. Thinking about all the love I had for her is a positively Helen-Kelleresque experience."

"I’m willing to die for the woman I love. I just want to take 75 years to do it."

"I hope we'll be friends forever, together we'll always be. I don't think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we'll think back to the past and think about how happy we are 'cause our friendship will always last."

"And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon...at lease some of the time"

"I was going to say the beginning is the good part, when it's all sparks and sparkles, before they are inevitably unmasked as assholes."

"The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future."

"I had a dream about you last night... Well I say dream I mean nightmare... you were a Yankee fan."

"In my memory her love shimmers, glimmers, and glitters the way light on black water reflects like diamonds, the treasure that was us."

"We made eyes at each other, and then we made love. We also made other things too, like meatloaf."

"Nothing carries meaning. People carry meaning. We are the porters of importance."

"Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did."