We love David Sedaris' sharp and funny observations on family and relationships.

"Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings." --David Sedaris

Leave it to the British to describe love in such elegant terms. File this under: "Happy relationship quotes that make you evaluate your personhood."

"You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you." --E. M. Forster

Aziz Ansari totally gets relationships in the modern age, as evidenced by one of his many good relationship quotes.

"If you've held someone you love and watched three to 10 hours of a critically acclaimed drama, you've experienced the peak of human happiness." --Aziz Ansari

For a gorgeous tale of a May-December relationship (and a boatload of cute couple quotes), please see Steve Martin's "Shopgirl."

"How is it possible, he thinks, to miss a woman whom he kept at a distance, so that when she was gone, he would not miss her?" --Steve Martin

Mike Birbiglia speaks for anyone who's ever created a wedding registry.

"Love makes people do crazy things like kill other people or shop at Crate & Barrel." --Mike Birbiglia