Markus Zusak Quotes

When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'

in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.

The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.

No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me.

I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us.

I think of 'crazy' as what happens when we love the other person more than we love ourselves.

Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide you with a mental fallback position.

When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.

Nobody in the world is completely dependent on another person, but we are all interdependent.

To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.

I don't see anything wrong with telling someone that you are selfish with their love and that you can't stand sharing them with anyone else.

Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people.

Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE.

Act the way you WANT to feel.

When people do things to make your dream come true, you owe them in one way or another. Everyone understands that for every dream that comes true for you, there might not be a dream coming true for someone else. When we trade one wish for another, there's a price to pay. It works like that

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a brief irrational moment, she wished she could walk away from him. Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

It's not that I didn't love myself before. Sometimes we don't realize that we are compromising ourselves. To understand that a person is not good for you, or that that person is not treating you in the right way, or that he is not doing the right thing for himself - if I stay, then I am not doing the right thing for me. I love myself enough to walk away from that now.

A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

It's not always like I'm right, and you're wrong. It's both ways.

No one single person is going to make each other happy, and it's foolish to expect the other person to do that.

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down.