Sarah Greene Quotes

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

Relationships are beautiful, and it's wonderful to find someone you can spend time with and share your life with. But there's also a lot of pressure attached to that. And I think you can't be in a relationship until you have discovered yourself fully.

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

Nothing scares me about marriage.

It is very difficult to trust anyone and I always find that hard in relationships.

I had a different perception of what a relationship or love is like. I was all giddy-headed and fairytale about it in my head, but it's so different. There's a lot of restraint that you've got to have, compromising in certain situations - and you've got to have a lot of respect.

People think that I have figured it all out, at a young age, about love.

I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget safety but also threaten it. And there is a lot for me about loss, too.

An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

The whole idea of love is scary - so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There's lots of research to suggest that, actually, love's not really that simple.

There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it.

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

I don't know, monogamy is a weird thing for me.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.

Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!