Selected relationships quotes

1. Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty! Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty: Love given willingly, full and free, Love for love's sake - as mine to thee. Duty's a slave that keeps the keys, But Love, the master, goes in and out Of his goodly chambers with song and shout, Just as he please - just as he please.

2. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

3. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

4. Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.

5. Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

6. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

7. Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

8. Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

9. No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

10. The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

11. Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.

12. I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a definition of MAGICK and setting forth its main principles in such a way that ALL may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon MAGICK and the right comprehension and right application thereof.

13. For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.

14. To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

15. Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

16. I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.

17. Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

18. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

19. When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

20. Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.

21. There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'

22. Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

23. There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.

24. I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

25. Most people would rather give than get affection.

26. My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

27. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

28. Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.

29. As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried.

30. I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

31. I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.

32. We've been through so much together, and most of it was your fault.

33. Hold on to me: Someday I may be quite valuable.

34. The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.

35. When you plan a journey from your mind into mine, remember to allow for the time difference.

36. Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.

37. Why aren't you more grateful when I prove how wrong you've been?

38. There are no important differences between men and women, but the unimportant ones are sometimes very interesting.

39. Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone.

40. Is there life in other families?

41. I don't think what they made between them was what you or I would understand as friendship

42. There are many things that men and women do not say, because to say them would only bring unhappiness

43. Why don't you say what you're thinking? What makes you think you want to hear it? Because the way you looked at me... I knew what you were thinking was, I love her, I want her beside me forever, I want her to be my wife, and ... I tell you honestly, I'm sick and tired of waiting for you to say it outloud What! Why should I tell you what you already know? Because I need to hear it

44. Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things

45. You're not losing me, mother. I'm in love. I never had you, not since you escaped from the womb

46. Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around

47. Numb - that's just the feeling you hope for on your wedding night

48. Don't hurt each other any more, children How could I hurt her? She'd have to love me before I could do that

49. And if it tortures you to know that another man was with her in her life, console yourself with this: he only knew her but the once

50. That was the most terrible thing that a woman could to a decent man: look vulnerable and ask him for mercy. If he refused her he'd be denying all his instincts as a provider and protector

51. He'd suppose she was looking at him with hurt and longing, that sort of dreamy-eyed look that he remembered very well from high school, the look that girls eventually realized they probably shouldn't use with guys unless they really meant something it, because it had the power to make them hover but then they were pretty hard to get rid of

52. She knew exactly what she had done to him. And yet she couldn't quite believe that she was jerking him around

53. The kind of man that's the one kind worth loving, when I tell him that story, he'll never be able to love me

54. There's a lot of guys around who are better for you than I am

55. We're not a family. We're the opposite of a family. We're people so lonely that when we're together we make a black hole of loneliness and everything else gets sucked down into it and is never seen again

56. There would be no compromise, no sweet-talking, no tears that could soften the hardest heart. It's not my heart that's hard, anyway. It's hers. Having no concern for what she's doing to me, the risks she's making me take against my will. My whole future down the toilet

57. So I believed all that stuff about pleasing myself. Can't be done. You can't please yourself by doing what you want. Because it doesn't mean anything if it's just you. There has to be somebody it matters to. I think... I think that in my heart I needed that to be [her]. I needed her to care about what I did

58. I'm nobody's child You're mine now. Not my child, but mine, to miss you when you go, to look out for you, to hope you'll be careful

59. You may think you ashamed, but you not. Deep down in your heart. You know you done it all You don't know what I feel

60. We're both damaged property, I guess Plenty of time for renovation

61. She watched him go into the building. He as striding boldly, almost jauntily. She liked the look of him, always had. He exuded confidence without ever looking as is he wanted to make sure everyone else knew how confident he was

62. You took sides!' So did you. The difference is that I sided with a man who was asking nothing more than to live with dignity... And you were siding with a woman who was using her connection with me as a way of raising herself above other people, which is foolish and self-destructive and I kept waiting for you to say something, for you to do anything to get [her] under control and you never did, not even when [he] was walking out on her because he couldn't take her psychotic hunger for control any longer

63. I don't ever want to see you again. You've made me regret the one unregretable decision of my life - [her]. You've made me wish, somewhere in my heart, that id never married her. Which is like making me wish id never been born

64. Damn this girl for her silence, for her seeing eyes

65. Matthew did not measure her bosom or her buttocks with his gaze. Rather he worshiped. But adoration - that laid upon her an obligation she did not know how to pay. At least, not in any coin she was willing to offer him

66. I was prepared for him to have human failings, but I did not know he would own me with his eyes as if he had a right

67. Afraid because his eyes still looked at her and said, mine, and because somewhere in her was something that answered, impossibly, yours

68. There are 2 kinds of women a man can marry. The kind that's stronger than he is, and the kind that's weaker. I've lived with both, Charlie. It's hard to live with a strong woman, because she can make you afraid sometimes, and sometimes you feel like you aren't in control of your life. But let me tell you, boy, it's a damn sight better than living with a weak woman, because many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife

69. No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him. My mistress has often told me that no man could endure me for more than an hour

70. Each incapable of knowing the others virtue, because like all children they only wanted to be known, and cared little about giving that gift to others

71. She never touched me, at least not as she had before, not with the promise of decades of passion in out future. She knew, but I did not yet know

72. I'm losing Savanna That's good. No one should own someone else

73. Grownup men don't share their lives with their sisters, they share them with their wives

74. Did any of these lines actually work? And even if they did, what came of it? One-night stands? Quick torrid affairs? Did any of these deliberate encounters lead to something that cured loneliness instead of simply easing the symptoms for an hour or two? [he] wasn't interested in meeting the kind of women who would come to one of those places looking for the kind of man who hoped to meet a woman there

75. Husbands are usually so overrated

76. A man who has loved the perfect lover isn't likely to find a substitute very soon

77. I wasn't crazy to love her was I? ...we're all crazy to love anybody. But it drives us even crazier if we don't

78. I'm so much like you that to love me is purest narcissism

79. My strongest memories are yours

80. Oh promises, promises I know you've heard them all before Love is, love is, love is, love is, love is... Oh well, it's just around the corner

81. more than this so much more than this there is something else there when all that you had has all gone and more than this I stand feeling so connected and I'm all there right next to you

82. My sister Shehnaz is very naive and sweet. She is also very spoilt and pampered. I love her a lot. I've grown in her shadow, as she was the older child in the house. I'd look up to her. She is very quite now, after my parents demise. She stays with me. She is an educated girl. She has done a management course; she used to work as an officer for the Indira Gandhi memorial. She has also done her MBA in psychology - Shahrukh

83. Slowly, Shahrukh managed to win over each and every member of my family. And once my folks got to know him, they started liking him. Finally, they were convinced that Shahrukh was the right person for me.- Gauri

84. 'Though everyone says my son looks like me, I think he's an exact replica of Gauri. He took to me instantly, he even talks to me. I'll tell my son to grab all the opportunities he can, he shouldn't wait for them to come knocking. And when he grows up, I'll flirt with all his girlfriends. That's for sure.' - Shahrukh

85. 'Gauri and he have been together since he was on the roads...until now! When he's so loving with others, you can imagine how loving he must be with his wife!' - Shashilal Nair

86. I'm not into that one-night thing. I think a person should get to know someone and even be in love with them before you use them and degrade them

87. Quanquam severa illic matrimonia

88. We all die in the end, so revenge we swore/I was all about my ends, fuck friends and foes

89. Don't trust my lady, cause she's a product of this poison/I'm hearin noises, think she fuckin all my boys, can't take no more

90. Cause when I was low you was there for me/And never left me alone because you cared for me/And I could see you comin home after work late/You're in the kitchen tryin to fix us a hot plate

91. There are no words that can express how I feel/You never kept a secret, always stayed real/And I appreciate, how you raised me/And all the extra love that you gave me

92. Won't be no bullshit, no ass-kissin/This bitch'll have ya wakin up with all your cash missin

93. Uhh, can it be fate/that makes a sick muthafucka break/On these jealous ass coward cuz they evil and fake

94. And when he tells you you ain't nothin / don't believe him / And if he can't learn to love you / you should leave him

95. Back to get wrecked/All respect/to those who break their neck to keep their hoes in check

96. Cause oh they sweat a brother majorly/And I don't know why, your girl keeps paging me

97. Ayo bust it, baby got a problem saying bye bye/Just another hazard of a fly guy

98. And I'll be there in a jiffy/Don't be picky, just be happy with this quickie/But when you learn, you can't tie me down/Baby doll, check it out, I get around

99. Saw you early this morning With your brand new boy and your Cadillac Saw you early this morning With your brand new boy and your Cadillac You're gone for something And I know you won't be back

100. I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape. It is important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled good bye hurts me to this day. p.316-317