“I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I used to think that finding the right one was about the man having a list of certain qualities. If he has them, we'd be compatible and happy. Sort of a checkmark system that was a complete failure. But I found out that a healthy relationship isn't so much about sense of humor or intelligence or attractive. It's about avoiding partners with harmful traits and personality types. And then it's about being with a good person. A good person on his own, and a good person with you. Where the space between you feels uncomplicated and happy. A good relationship is where things just work. They work because, whatever the list of qualities, whatever the reason, you happen to be really, really good together.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.”
― David Rovics

“The number of chances you give someone doesn't tell the world how loving you are without telling them how desperate you are to believe they care as much as you. True love resides in the first chance, stupidity in the second, opportunists in the third and scoundrels in the fourth.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“In a relationship, people may be inhabited by discordant personalities. For that reason, it might be convenient for partners if one of both could sometimes be a little hard of hearing, or the other a bit shortsighted. ("Mutual understanding")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)”
― Nelson Mandela

“Though soulmates aren't looking for you, they will find you.”
― Kevin Ansbro

“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Those who cheat on their partners who are loyal to them; don't deserve them. It is a trashy attitude to disrespect a person who is loyal in a relationship, by cheating on him or her.”
― Ellen J. Barrier

“Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obeyed, but she was restless. As clear as if she spoke to me, she was saying, "Very well, I know you want to keep my strength up, but scent fades, you know!"
And I'd say, "I know, girl, but you're what I have and I'm going to take care of you.”
― Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound

“Sometimes, a person isn’t looking to increase their lifestyle, status or ego when they fall in love. Sometimes, they just want that special someone that is just like them. The one person that truly understands how they suffer because they have gone through it too. They want to wake up beside someone that knows their trials intimately. They want a teammate that doesn’t say they get it, but someone who knows it, lived it and survived it. They have been looking for that person their entire life because they feel alone and misunderstood. They are tired of people telling them not to care about other people, when that is not who God designed them to be. The depth of their soul can’t be reached by their partner standing at the top looking down. They want to come home to their “own kind”--the person that has run the same dark corridors they have traveled in their mind. They want to build a life with someone that would never break their heart, push them away or give up on them. They don’t want the person that has to win. They want the rescuer that has been to the fearful boundaries of their heart, but knows the way back to life. When they meet this person they will never forget them because they will come into their life with all the fire they possess and never leave their soul.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Guido raised his hand to his head and moved his index finger around in a circle near his temple indicating Smalley Pauley had some mental issues.”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

“People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended.”
― Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles

“Choice: that was the thing. Other people claimed that you can't choose who you love--it just happens!--but Grace and Roman knew that was a bunch of happy horseshit. Of course you chose who you loved. If you didn't choose, you ended up with what was left--the drunks and abusers, the debtors and vacuums, the ones who ate their food too fast or had never read a novel. Damn, marriage was hard work, was manual labor, and unpaid manual labor at that. Yet, year after year, Grace and Roman had pressed their shoulders against the stone and rolled it up the hill together.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World

“Whether our caretaker was our mom, dad, uncle, aunt, grandparent, foster parent, or sibling, our blueprint of what a relationship is supposed to look like is drafted by what we observed from our caretaker’s relationship. If our caretaker took their significant other back multiple times, made excuses for their actions, helped them battle demons, turned a blind eye to their infidelity, or moved from one relationship to the next, that is what we know. Their behavior becomes our very own model of what a relationship is supposed to look like and determines what we will expect from our own partners.”
― Kristen Crockett, The Gift of Past Relationships

“Heartland
Now that we’ve given our hearts away
With the bric-a-brac, we want them back.
Now we look for them secondhand,
Someone else’s, in the old songs,
The slowly unfolding novels
We never had time for. Hearts
That taught themselves to fly;
…overstuffed hearts, still leaking
Downy secrets like feathers.

We want someone to say,
‘I give you my heart’, meaning,
‘Summer and winter’, meaning
‘All my time in the this world’…”
― Lisel Mueller, Alive Together

“Those who make withdrawals without making deposits, eventually find the relationship empty for future withdrawals”
― John Arthur, The Law Of Reciprocity

“Making deposits in relationships are as important as making withdrawals.”
― John Arthur, The Law Of Reciprocity

“But in the fake worlds, Shen Wei was always right there at his side, playing different roles in his life.”
― Priest, Guardian: Zhen Hun (Novel) Vol. 3

“Once you give out what you have, you open up your treasures to receive abundance in greater proportions.”
― John Arthur, The Law Of Reciprocity

“Learning to give is the easiest way we can grow.”
― John Arthur, The Law Of Reciprocity

“The two basic pillars for the Law of Reciprocity are giving and the other is receiving. These two pillars come together to make what is called sharing.”
― John Arthur, The Law Of Reciprocity

“Your friendships become as rich and enduring as your application of the law of reciprocity.”
― John Arthur, The Law Of Reciprocity

“Have the humility to receive from your friends no matter how little they contribute to your life.”
― John Arthur, The Law Of Reciprocity

“Successful friendships are established on both giving and receiving. Develop a heart to give not only to receive.”
― John Arthur, The Law Of Reciprocity

“Friendships dwell on the law of reciprocity.”
― John Arthur, The Law Of Reciprocity

“Every friendship will have an impact on your life.”
― John Arthur, The Law Of Reciprocity

“« Chacune à sa manière m'a fait découvrir un univers, des lieux, des habitudes de vie, de pensées ; j'ai beaucoup appris sur moi. Il me semble que j'ai emprunté un très joli chemin de psychologie personnelle, riche et aventureux. »”
― Élodie Font, À nos désirs - Dans l'intimité des lesbiennes

“If Bea could no longer join Iona in her world, Iona could join Bea in hers.”
― Clare Pooley