Nora Roberts Quotes

We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones.

'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.

I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.

Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.

What I really like about Woody Allen's films is that there's a real investment in personal relationships. There is the idea that this is a serious concern worth making serious art about - how we love other people and how we can negotiate our relationships with them.

Even bros have depth, complexity, and emotion.

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.

Love is almost never simple.

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.

Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops.

Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

Relationships are super complicated and always have dark and light in them. And all good sexual relationships do, too.

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.

They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using their mouths for other things—like talking—everything got so complicated.

But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I've been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can explore how difficult it is for people to be together.

In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

I don't treasure things much - just people. And pets.

The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.

I believe love isn't simple, and it's one of the things that makes people break all the rules.

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.