Top 82 Quotes About Love Sarah Dessen
#2. That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.
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#3. Finally he asks, "What if that's not enough? What if I need something else?"
And she replies, "Whatever you need, I will find a way to get it to you. I will give you the moon, and more.
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#4. I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.
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#5. After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little ... like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.
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#6. I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what a hard job it is now, and I'm coming at it from another angle - like you just love and care about this person so much, and just want to protect them from everything.
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#7. I'm saying that, you know, we never get to go to the beach and just, you know, let loose. Fall in love and be different, with no permanent record. We live in our permanent record.
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#8. Listen,"Kristy said," the truth is,nothing is guranteed. You know better than anybody." She looked at me hard,making sure I knew what she meant.I did."So don't be afraid.Be alive.
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#9. It was the best kind of love story ... until there was an ending to it.
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#10. Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.
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#11. And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.
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#12. You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!
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#14. I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or serious or what. This bothered me. Or intrigued me. Or both.
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#15. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.
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#16. I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.
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#17. I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.
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#18. When you've never gotten love from someone, you don't know what it might look like if it ever does appear. You look for it in everything: any bright light overhead could be a star.
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#19. But you never know what you can do until you try, and if you're lucky, what you love will always be waiting for you
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#20. Maybe not," she said as we came to the car. "But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.
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#21. Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.
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#22. The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot, Remy.
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#23. Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?
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#24. I wasn't ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn't that I wasn't right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn't right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things didn't come easy for, someone like me.
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#25. The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.
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#26. It's not a switch you can just flip off", Dr. Marshall had told me once. "If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love-and everything that followed is part of letting it go.
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#27. I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
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#28. Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.
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#30. Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.
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#31. I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.
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#32. Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.
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#33. It was just a tiny moment. Not a kiss, not even real contact. But for all the things it wasn't, it meant so much.
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#34. Well, here we are," Ethan said. "The end of the world."
I smiled, turning slightly to take in the full view. "It's different to what I expected."
"The big stuff always is," he said.
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#35. I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.
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#36. You can't be together, which is exactly why you want to be.
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#37. I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.
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#38. We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.
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#39. But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.
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#40. But against love, the case was solid. Easily argued. And you could, indeed, hold it in your hand.
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#42. But sometimes I longed for that sense of someone pulling me close, feeling another heartbeat against mine.
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#43. There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
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#44. What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they came close, as if you might just break free of whatever was holding you and throw yourself at them with enough force to easily overwhelm you both.
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#45. If I'd ever seen what love really could do, or was, maybe I'd have believed in it from the start. But too much of my life had been spent watching marriages come together and then fall apart. So I understood, yes. But sometimes, like lately, I wished that I didn't, not at all.
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#46. With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.
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#47. You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.
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#48. He doesn't love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn't know any better. When I trusted everyone. I'm not that person any more. He's just a boy. He was the first to really hurt me, but he's just a boy. There were a lot of them.
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#49. It was like those songs I'd heard as a child, each so familiar, and all mine. When i got older and realized the words were sad, the stories tragic, it didn't make me love them any less. By then they were already part of me, woven into my conciousness & memory
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#50. I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect ... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.
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#51. We were there, together, and in the next room I could hear that monitor beeping. Keeping track of another heart's beat and giving enduring, solid proof of our own.
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#52. You can't measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments. Some in life are light, like a touch. Others, you can't help but stagger beneath.
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#53. Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you'll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a different way. And other times, it's that first date, that first moment. That's what makes it so great.
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#54. We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.
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#55. I think she loves him," Lissa said. "And love is needing someone.
Love is putting up with someone's
bad qualities because they somehow complete you."
"Love is an excuse to put up with shit that you shouldn't," I replied,
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#56. You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.
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#57. It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.
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#58. So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.
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#59. You asked me to go out with you. I know you probably changed your mind. But you should know, the answer was yes. It's always been yes when it comes to you.
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#60. I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.
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#61. If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.
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#62. The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.
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#63. Fall in love with someone who truly deserves your heart. Not with someone who plays with it.
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#64. Again, this made me think of Daisy, and her white lie about the dresses. We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love
all kinds
was really all about.
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#65. If what you're asking is how I debated whether or not to love her the answer is I didn't. Not at all. It just happened. I didn't ever question it; by the time I realized what was happening, it was already done.
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#66. The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote
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#67. It [I'm leaving] wasn't really necessary to say, especially if you were already walking away. Almost redundant. And yet, there was a comfort in being no question, no room for doubt.
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#68. Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with.
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#69. I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once.
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#70. Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all.
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#71. It's you who i have thought of when i am at
my weakest & you who have pulled me through
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#72. Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.
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#73. You want to take me to a movie?" I asked.
"Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.
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#74. He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I'd won a prize, because he was so sparing with them.
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#75. Love is an excuse to put up with the shit that you shouldn't. That's how it gets you. It throws off the scales so that things that should weigh heavily don't seem to. It's a crock. A trap.
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#77. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones ... you might as well hold on to them.
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#78. Love is an excuse to put up with shit that you shouldn't
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#79. Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.
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#80. It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that order. The making good and striking out part I liked. The rest would just be bonus.
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#81. Me and Ethan, dancing in the dark at the end of the world.
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#82. If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.
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