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I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

—George Burns

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Relationships take work. Hours and days and years of getting close to that person. That's real love, real intimacy.

—Karen Kingsbury in A Time to Embrace

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A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

—Bertrand Russell

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Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.

—Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You

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The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

—Elbert Hubbard

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My wife said she'd like to have sex in the backseat of the car . . . and she wanted me to drive.

—Rodney Dangerfield

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The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

—Carolyn G. Heilbrun

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There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy.

—Gillian Rose

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If you have to convince someone to stay with you, then they have already left.

—Shannon L. Alder

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I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.

—Shauna Niequist in Bittersweet

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I hate hiding how much the stupid things he did hurt me, but I hated the idea of him finding out even more.

—Leigh Bardugo in Shadow and Bone

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Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be.

—Julia Quinn in The Viscount Who Loved Me

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You don't stop loving someone just because they've hurt you. Yes, what you did hurt me, but I gain nothing if I stay angry with you. But I might gain everything by forgiving you.

—Cassia Leo in Pieces of You

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Everything's going to be fine. Sooner or later you're going to find someone who knocks you right off your feet. Someone who makes you feel alive. Someone who kisses you and makes your knees weak. Relationships are complicated enough as it is. It's not worth settling for anything less.

—Lindsey Kelk in The Single Girl's To-Do List

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Rarely an hour passed that they didn't argue about something. They had lived together for so many years that they mistook their arguments for conversations.

—Marjorie Kellogg

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