relationship

"You’re a mess, I confess, I despise you in the best kind of way."

"Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it."

"If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you."

"Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me."

"If I knew how a lot of my relationships would have turned out, I never would have gotten involved in them... And I would have missed out on some of the best times in my life."

"A relationship needs constant attention. It’s a living thing, not just a habit. You’ve got to keep on top of it."

"I want to go to Martha’s Vineyard. I have an aunt named Martha. And an uncle by that name. Neither one is related to me."

"Your personal brand should be like water: not only clear, but transparent to the public. People thirst for that, and they will drink you up."

"Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground."

"I want to love you down. I want to love you deep. I want to love you up. And I want to love you width all my heart. Now that is #4DFeeling."

"If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn't tell him that she wants a relationship, it will never become a relationship. If you give the guy the impression that casual is okay with you, that's all he'll ever want. Be straight with him from the start. If he gets scared and runs away, he wasn't right for you."

"When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing."

"Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise."(p. 248)"

"Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together."

"She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing about for hundreds of years, but she also knew, from those same books, that there were people who never recover form it, ones who go on through life beset by a dim and painful longing."

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

"In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning."

"Chairs have legs. Four of them, like my father. Meow."

"They (penguins) then fall madly in love and live happily ever after.-And so you ask yourself: "If a penguin can have a worthwhile, stimulating relationship, why the hell can't I?"-Or maybe you ask yourself: "Would I be happier if I started dating a penguin"

"- "Why don't you like to be touched?"- "Because I'm fifty shades of fucked-up, Anastasia"