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First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back t...

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All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in the...

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All's fair in love and war," said Ron brightly, "and this is a bit of both.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the ai...

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J. K. RowlingThe Casual Vacancy

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and int...

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J. K. RowlingThe Casual Vacancy

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been test...

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J. K. RowlingVery Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

In a sudden and soundless eruption, as if he has fallen into a waking dream, a stream of images pour...

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I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing....

Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner.

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting ...

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They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortab...

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It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something onl...

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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that s...

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To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its h...

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It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, f...

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What you think is the heart might well be another organ.

And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, k...

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You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own.

Sometimes, especially as women, we don't feel comfortable giving ourselves that credit. We're selfle...

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Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without di...

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Jerry SpinelliToday I Will: A Year of Quotes

Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women h...

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Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like ...

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I'm only fifteen. I'm not sure I ever want to get married. I'm neither messing around while waiting ...

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We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, ...

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Joan DidionThe Year of Magical Thinking

The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had be...

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males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.

I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same plac...

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Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?""I want to look at you and remember what it used to...

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Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow-beautiful while it's there, and ju...

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because in the past words have only driven them apart.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but ther...

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Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pret...

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It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They w...

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There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one...

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Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, pr...

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It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thin...

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Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy ...

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If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically al...

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I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real...

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Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and ma...

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John Green (author)An Abundance of Katherines

You know what's lame, Pudge? I really care about her. I mean, we were hopeless. Badly matched. But s...

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I wouldn't have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard - I'd have been gra...

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Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thi...

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That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’r...

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You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

Maybe its like you said before, all of us being cracked open. Like each of us starts out as a watert...

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And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in...

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In the ensuing silence, I have the time to contemplate the word cute – how dismissive it is, how it’...

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The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their e...

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The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will be...

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All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines agai...

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How dare you say it's nothing to me?Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

Relationship Time to Aloneness." Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but w...

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The thing about her is, she’s good-natured. He knew it the second he saw her standing by the parking...

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It was a passion neither of the mind nor of the heart, it was a force that comprehended them both, a...

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It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.

Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Sh...

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Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes ...

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Touch had always saved them in the past. No matter the anger or hurt, no matter the depth of the alo...

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What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any nega...

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Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationshi...

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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what...

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... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

Because nothing between human beings is uncomplicated and there's no way to speak of human beings wi...

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There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with ...

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Judith MartinCommon Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson

I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep.

Sex is a commitment...Once you're there you can't go back to holding hands...and when you give yours...

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Why, you are a man of heart!""Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.

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Jules VerneAround the World in Eighty Days

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity...

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He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They...

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Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.

Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of ou...

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Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greate...

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Karen HorneyNeurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutili...

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I've tried to prepare my daughter for the phenomenon I've experienced of beautiful young women being...

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Kathleen TurnerSend Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life

Another example of getting flack from the boys is what happened when Jack Black dumped me. That’s ri...

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As I’ve said, it wasn’t until a long time afterwards—long after I’d left the Cottages—that I realize...

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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

I've crossed paths since with men like him. I wish I could say differently. But I have. And what I h...

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Khaled HosseiniAnd the Mountains Echoed

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love,...

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I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in...

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L. Frank BaumThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz

I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness...

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I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I...

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Today, I would pick the person who made me feel warm, rather than the one who left me cold.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, th...

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There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the dif...

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Loving relationships, though necessary for life, health, and growth, are among the most complicated ...

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....though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often utterly without prepara...

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Even after centuries of human interacting, children still continue to rebel against their parents an...

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Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills...

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Love them that hate you, but you can't love them whom you hate.

Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in so...

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They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either ...

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We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting ...

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