Fiona Apple Quotes

I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.

I get on with all my exes, so there's nothing I need to forget about. I don't know - life is shorter than it seems.

Never be friends with your exes if you weren't friends with them before.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.

Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

A lot of cases, what makes you an interesting and complex person makes you a really horrible person to be with romantically.

Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my relationship with myself, my relationship with God or an idea, and then usually somebody, a real person. I try to operate on all three levels at the same time, and it's difficult, but I never want to have a break-up song or something like that.

Relationships help you learn more about what you want. If one doesn't work out, you just kind of look at it and go, Okay, well, this is what I did like and this is what I didn't like, and this is what I did wrong, and maybe I need to be more like this. And so you learn things, and that's why you grow. And you bring all the stuff that you've changed about yourself to a new relationship until you finally find that person you really, really want.

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.

...Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner

I've never been convinced that everything in a relationship needs to be talked about. Some things can't be fixed by a conversation

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the growing process, I don't know. A little mellowing.

I finally accept that not only do I not understand the death of my relationship, but I do not need to. These men were good and kind to me, they loved me and I loved them back and the shock at the finish holds no wisdom. The revelation is not that I lost them, but that I had them.

I'm not on good terms with any of my exes. That's why we're not together anymore. We're not friends.

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

Ultimately it boils down to the same thing all relationships boil down to: eating humble pie. I sometimes eat quite a lot. But, however bitter it might taste, it's the best pie. It's on the menu constantly for both parties.

If I see something I don't like about a friend, I don't stick with that friend because I don't need them.

Many of us have a need to be right. We then set out to make ourselves right by making someone else wrong. We must get right with ourselves. Once we do, we will have so much to do, we will not have time to keep track of who is wrong.