383 Quotes About Couples

Broken heart doesn't bleed, it cries.

Unrequited love belongs to one person. Really being in love with another person requires the two of you. It can’t be willed to exist from one person alone, and therefore, it is not something any one person can control. And that’s why it’s so f*cking terrifying.

Life is too short. Show appreciation to the person you love. Let them know how you truly feel. Show them you care. Spend quality time with them, because you never know how long you will be with them.

There was mystery at the heart of any of marriage, secrets even people close to it would never know.

Theirs was a private language, not shared with the rest of the world, and so exempt from censure, sheer burlesque.

While she was away, he'd forgotten how powerfully she broadcast her feelings, filling the house like a kind of nerve gas.

The single dinner plate, the silent house, the tumbler in the sink--this was how it would be if he lost her. His mother had gone quickly, from liver cancer, the mass discovered too late. He thought of his father alone in his condo, crossing off days on the calendar like a prisoner. He'd survived her by thirteen years, yet every time Henry saw him, he quoted her as if they'd just spoken. Henry could picture himself doing the same to the children. He already lived too much in his memory.

Who knew what happened in a marriage, what bargains and compromises people struck?

I can spend a lifetime like this, just sitting here with you like this.