“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Love, Faith, Leap of Faith, Pain
“You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Love, Love Songs, Music
“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater... The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Relationships, Love, compromises
“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Love, Dating, Marriage
“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater…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…”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Human Condition, Relationships, Compromise, Love
“Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: differences, Understand, Past, Regret, Love
“Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationsh…”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Just Friends, Pain, hurt
“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.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: This Lullaby, Relationships, Love, Hiding, Fear
“And guys don't get attached, guys don't give themselves over completely, and guys lie. That's why they should be handled with great trepidation, not trusted, and held at arm's length whenever possible.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Sarah Dessen Quotes, Sarah Dessen, Relationships
“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater…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…”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, romance, inspiration
“What had he said to me that first day? Something about natural chemistry. He claimed he’d noticed it right from the start, and maybe it was an explanation, of sorts, of why we kept coming together, again and again.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Love
“And love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Love, Love Truths
“And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater. But, the love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And thats the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a rela…”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Compromise
“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.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Falling In Love
“Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big way, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Decision Making, Choices
“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Love, Leap of Faith, Trust, Taking Chances
“Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Love, Forever, Uncertainty