Zoe Lister-Jones Quotes

I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you tell 'em you want somebody else?

I think in general I personally have a tendency to protect other people's feelings, and I've noticed that becomes a major hindrance to communication. It's better to just be honest, even if it's painful.

I always find the worst lies are told in relationships - I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone's feelings from being hurt.

A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

When you love somebody, you gotta be honest with them even if it'll hurt them.

If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a dictator and you telling what you think, feel, and what you want or don’t want, is just called being honest. It doesn't control him at all. You’re trying to control others by withholding information by not getting involved and by not being honest. Withholding information is a form of manipulation. It is dishonest and it’s destructive to a relationship.

No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think.

My whole thing is, if you love this person as much as you say you do and you spent this much time together, you owe it to that person to have a conversation with them about opening up the relationship one way or another before you go and you act on it.

Life is too short not to say how you feel to the people you love.

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.

I'm someone, the same as my girlfriends, when they say what do you think about this, I don't always say they look fabulous. I say what I think.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

I think it can be fun to write about relationships just because so many people can relate to what you are feeling.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

You know, I do not know, I just want to date someone who makes me happy.

I'm not going to pretend that I am the best thing in their life and they have to be totally loyal.

Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.

People are human beings. They talk about stuff, they make mistakes, they try to impress each other with their tidbits.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.