In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us. – Hector Bianciotti, Sans La Misericorde du Christ

[I]f any one had asked what gifts she desired most, she would have answered with a look more pathetic than any shivering child had given her: “I want the sound of a loving voice; the touch of a friendly hand.” – Louisa May Alcott, “Seamstress,” Work: A Story of Experience, 1873

A relationship will eventually turn love inside out. And the test is whether you can love from both sides. – Terri Guillemets, “The next day,” 1989