Tim O'Brien Quotes

Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.

After I've gone out with a man a few times, he starts to tell me how much he loves me. But how can I know if he really means it? How can I ever be sure?

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Those that we love never alter, unless we cease to love them.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

If you want a long-term relationship that doesn't require a lot of work, I say, get a dog. They love you no matter what. But when it comes to humans, there's no secret; you really have to appreciate the person every single day.

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

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

There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

Of course, with the people you really know, no one changes that much.

I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.

I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.

I have no problem with commitment - you can't have a real relationship without it. I can flip on a switch in my brain, and even if the next Brad Pitt is standing next to me, I won't look at him. But I can also turn that switch off, and then I collect attractive boys.

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It's a strange thing.

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

You can love two or more women at once... but you cannot be loyal to more than one.

Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.