Sally Rooney Quotes

Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.

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

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

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!

I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.

It's important for couples to be friends first and to respect each other as individuals.

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

I think when you're in a relationship, either you have something or your partner generally has something that you're having to deal with.

The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.

You kind of restructure your whole personality to be in a healthy relationship.

I wanted to write about relationships in a more honest, raw sort of way. Get away from all those cliches about how 'time heals' and how you can be the better person. Less sugar-coating and more 'feel the pain.'

Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

In every relationship, there are two perspectives to it.

I wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn't perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect.

My one area of vulnerability was I didn't know how to have a healthy relationship with a man.

Any relationship has its strengths and weakness.

I have a very intense marriage.

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.

We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own.

I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.

The power dynamics in a relationship are going to be fluid over a long period of time, so to wait for 'perfect' is going to be a mistake.