“Between sips of kale juice at the Soho Grand, a chic Manhattan hotel near her apartment, she is explaining to me why time has hardened our view of adultery. ‘It’s because fidelity is the last thing left that defines a marriage,’ she says. ‘You don’t need to wait to have sex, you don’t need kids. You…”— Esther Perel, Emily Bobrow, 1843magazine.com
“Never start something you’re not willing to finish. And if you’re getting fucked either way, go with the lucrative version sweetheart.”— Halley Wegryn Gross, Jonathan Nolan, Maeve Millay, Thandie Newton, imdb.com
“This right here is all I will ever need. I never imagined that in my wildest dreams that it would happen, that you and me, that we would happen. But we did. Listen, I know I'm not the easiest guy in the world to build a life with and to share a house with, but there is no one who will be more here f…”— Scott Patterson, Luke Danes, netflix.com
“Do you think I would have let you sodomize me if I didn't think there was a future here?”— Tom Kapinos, Carrie, Natalie Zea, imdb.com
“Don’t commit to things you don’t actually want to do. Try saying ‘no’ from the outset instead of putting yourself in the position to make a lame excuse later.”— Mélanie Berliet, thoughtcatalog.com
“Do not commit to any side or cause but yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others -- playing people against one another, making them pursue you.”— Robert Greene, amazon.com
“As long as one marries, enters a career or has children to satisfy one’s parents or the expectations of anyone else, including society as a whole, the commitment by its very nature will be a shallow one.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“He pushes for quick involvement. He comes on strong, claiming, 'I've never felt loved like this before by anyone.' You get pressured for an exclusive commitment almost immediately.”— Wendy Kay, yourtango.com
“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”— Criss Jami, amazon.com
“He calls all his exes this girl I was kinda dating or kinda hooking up with. If he rarely/never uses the word ex, that could be a sign that he's had commitment issues for quite a while.”— Anna Breslaw, cosmopolitan.com
“He veers away from the topic of commitment or labeling what you two have.”— Jorella Valino, lovepanky.com
“Don't worry. I'll protect you. I'd do anything for you.”— Matt Whitney, Chuck Bass, Ed Westwick, imdb.com
“If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.”— Bob Odenkirk, Saul Goodman, amazon.com
“I just want someone who wants to hang out all the time and thinks I’m the best person in the world and wants to have sex with only me.”— Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvath, Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham, amazon.com
“It is not so incomprehensible as you pretend, sweet pea. Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as the hug we give a friend or heavy as the sacrifices we make for our children. It can be romantic, platonic, familial, fleeting, everlasting,…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world – that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimate secrets…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end, after many years of partnership.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com