Settling Quotes ...
"I never wanted any of them. I just didn't want to be alone. I was a user." - My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle
"I've always thought that it would happen really quickly, that I'd meet someone, we'd fall in love, and we'd probably both know by the end of our first evening that this was it. I'm not sure how I'd know, but I'm convinced I would. The only problem with that is, I think I know with all of them." - Mr. Maybe by Jane Green
"I had even purposely chosen relationships that I knew would have a limited shelf life because I wanted to be able to dump them at the drop of a hat." - My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle
"I've noticed that i always want what i can't have.. especially in relationships.. and I'm always causing problems to make the relationship unattainable.. because when i want what i can't have.. well i can't get hurt. . . " - Beckie
"I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have."
"I don't want to be with somebody who would rather be with me than with nobody. I want to be with somebody who would rather be with me than with anybody."
"Maybe there isn't a Mr. Right. Maybe there's a Mr. Good Enough."
"I wish I could be hard and cynical. That I could take things slowly, not give too much of myself, because I'd be so frightened of getting hurt that there wouldn't be any other way. But no. every time I meet someone I dive in headfirst, showering them with love and attention, and hoping that this time they're going to be different." - Mr. Maybe by Jane Green
"People who have slept in the same bed for twenty-five years may not be truly joined, and people who are many miles apart may not seperate at all." -a return to love
Going through the motions pretending to be the man you used to see in me baby. You don't want to hurt me so you play along, and it don't feel right, and it don't feel wrong. It just feels like a memory: Barely alive. When will we let it die?" - Toby Keith, "When Love Fades"
"I'm firmly convinced that it's better to spend your time looking for someone who will treat you right, than to waste your time with someone who does you wrong."
"You watched me walk away, and I set you free. But I come back to you and you come back to me; I guess it beats being lonely. that's the reason why we give it one more try." - Toby Keith, "When Love Fades"
"it's all about might. it might hurt. it might not work. it might be awful. i never think it might work. it might be good. it might be fun." - Girls' Poker Night by Jill A. Davis
"I've always avoided fights. i make jokes instead. i tell people what they want to hear in order to avoid a confrontation. i pretend to want things i don't want, and i pretend not to want things i do want. no one gets hurt. except me. the lines are so crossed and blurred at the point that i don't know what i want. i just know i want it to be easy." - Girls' Poker Night by Jill A. Davis
"Ryan Bingham: Your resume says you minored in French Culinary Arts. Most students work the fryer at KFC. You busted tables at Il Picatorre to support yourself. Then you got out of college and started working here. How much did they pay you to give up on your dreams? Bob: Twenty seven thousand a year. Ryan Bingham: At what point were you going to stop and go back to what made you happy?" - Up In The Air
"there was no difficult period of forgetting him or getting over him. which made me wonder if i had ever loved him, or anyone else." - Girls' Poker Night by Jill A. Davis
"I realize that for the longest time, I saw Andy as perfect, and our life together as perfect. And in some bizarre way, once Leo came back into my life, this yellow-brick road started to feel like settling. Settling for perfection, for all the things that you're supposed to want. A good family. A beautiful home. Wealth. It was almost as if I discounted my feelings, because surely I couldn't truly be in love with Andy, too, on top of all those check marks in his column. Subconsciously, I think I assumed that any feelings I had for dark, difficult, distant Leo had to be more legitimate. The stuff of sad love songs." - Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin
"With a measure of self-serving irony, I reassure myself that perhaps I needed to kiss Leo to really let go of him--and dismiss the notion that staying in my marriage is any version of settling, or that I'm with Andy by default. After all, isn't settling about having no opinions at all? About taking something because it's better than nothing? I finally had a real choice. And I chose." - Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin
"The word settling echoes in my head, gnawing at my heart and filling me with trepidation. It is a word I've avoided for months, even in my own, private thoughts, but I suddenly can't avoid it any longer. In some ways, it feels like the scary heart of the matter--the fear that I settled when I said 'I do' to Andy. That I should have held out for this kind of love. That I should have believed that Leo would, someday, return to me." - Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin
"Most people are looking for someone to love, but me, I'm simply looking for the ability to love."
"You know, honestly by the time you're 34, all the physical requirements just go out the window. You secretly pray that he'll be taller than you, not an asshole would be nice just someone who enjoys my company, comes from a good family. You don't think about that when you're younger. Someone who wants kids, likes kids. Healthy enough to play with his kids. Please let him earn more money than I do, you might not understand that now but believe me, you will one day otherwise that's a recipe for disaster. And hopefully, some hair on his head. I mean, that's not even a deal breaker these days. A nice smile. Yea, a nice smile just might do it." - Up In The Air
"i'm sad that this is the kind of person i am. i am a person who will stay in a relationship for three years because i know that this relationship will never hurt me. i will park my love here because here i will never experience great joy, but more important, i will never be devastated. the dissolving of this won't be painful at all. it will just be a formality. a formal ending to something that barely or never existed." - Girls' Poker Night by Jill A. Davis
"I would rather you say 'I love you,' just once and truly mean it than say it a thousand times and never mean it even once."
"It doesn't work that way. At a certain point, you stop with the deadlines. It can be a little counterproductive." - Up In The Air
"Why should I settle for a cubic zirconium when there is a big shiny sexy diamond standing right in front of me?" - Party of Five
"I'd rather spend the rest of my life cooking for one than being with someone who can do without me." - everwood
"just because he's good company doesn't mean I fancy him, but then maybe fancying someone isn't what it's all about? Maybe I've been wrong in waiting for that sweep you off your feet feeling, the feeling I had with [him]. And, let's face it, it didn't exactly work with [him], so maybe I've been looking for the wrong thing." - Mr. Maybe by Jane Green
"I know what I should do but I just can't walk away."- Jimmy Eat World
"it's funny how the prospect of love is so much more interesting when you don't actually know the person you're fabricating a fantasy life with. i can't allow reality to get in my way." - Girls' Poker Night by Jill A. Davis
"experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time." - The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks
"how I spend my life wondering why I never seem to have healthy, happy relationships. How I probably wouldn't know a healthy, happy relationship if it jumped on my head and knocked me sideways." - Mr. Maybe by Jane Green
"I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the right background, and, instead of sitting back and waiting for him to reveal his other bits, I make them up. I decide how he thinks, how he's going to treat me, and, sure enough, every time I conclude that this time he's definitely my perfect man, and all of a sudden, well, not so suddenly perhaps, usually around six months after we've split up, I see that he wasn't the person I thought he was at all." - Mr. Maybe by Jane Green
"Did you ever notice that people give up on love as they get older? When you're a little girl, all you want to do is fall in love. Then when you're a teenager, every guy you meet you think is 'the one'. Then when you're an adult and you have been hurt from the breakups as a teen, you're not interested in love anymore. You just don't want to be alone, so you settle for someone you might even know isn't your soul mate. I know so many adults that aren't truly where they want to be. I just try to think about what they might have went through to make them settle for second best, and I hope that doesn't happen to me."
"But sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something. You know?" - Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
"Sometimes we have to stay away from the things we love, and learn to appreciate the things we need." - Tony Parsons
"I feel like men are more romantic than women. When we get married we marry, like, one girl, because we're resistant the whole way until we meet one girl and we think 'I'd be an idiot if I didn't marry this girl, she's so great.' But it seems like girls get to a place where they just kinda pick the best option... 'Oh he's got a good job.' I mean they spend their whole life looking for Prince Charming and then they marry the guy who's got a good job and is gonna stick around." - Blue Valentine
"I love you, but let's leave that out of this. I don't want to be someone that you're settling for; I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it." - Sleepless in Seattle
"All of my life, I have worried about settling... in relationships, work... you name it. It was only recently that I realized I may become the one someone else settles for. The thought of the man whom I love with all of my being, who I feel is my confidante, my soulmate, may very well be accepting his life with me because he can't have the life he wanted. How can I ever feel comfortable in our relationship when I know this is a possibility?" � JoAnne Golden
