‘I’m sorry,’ I say. 'I didn’t give you everything you wanted. I wasn’t everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.’
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Quotes tagged ‘Relationship’
I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
It seemed like you could know me. Like you could understand anything I told you. And the more we spoke, I knew why. The same things excited us. The same things concerned us.
She hadn’t wanted to be loved carefully, only well.
Far better is it to have a stout heart always, and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went.
I don’t think I understand people very well. I only know whether I like or dislike them.
The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone’s sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.
If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.
When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!
All it takes is three simple words to explain a complicated relationship. I love you.
I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.
We agreed to love each other madly.
We spoke endlessly about everything and nothing. Now, I cannot even remember the sound of your voice.