V. E. Schwab Quotes

I love how deceptively simple 'love interest' is, you know? Because it encompasses quite a lot, when you think about it.

I have competed with a friend over a guy, but I was always the one who would give in. It's not worth it to fight with a friend over a guy.

When you meet someone, there's an initial reaction and then as you get to know them, things change, things deepen, or they go the other way.

It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.

I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common even though we're admittedly different people. I think it evolves from how I see relationships working. You know, the opposites attract thing happens all the time, but so does the best friends thing. It's just a great kind of relationship in fiction.

I think chemistry is finding something you love about a person and then transfering it to an in love kind of thing.

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

I think if you love someone, you think that they're out of your league, of course. I go for the full package though, you know, like not everything is based on looks. I go for talent and funny.

I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid.

I'm not cynical about love at all. I'm very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.

Because I thought I was in love. And when you think you're in love, you are willing to stick it out and make it work until it is love.

If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.

I certainly don't believe in love at first sight. I definitely believe in a lot of chemistry and lust at first sight. I think that love is something that takes work.

You said we've got a new page. I figure I've got some say in what gets written on it. So I'm going to work on you. Last time around, you threw yourself at me.” “I did no such thing.” “Sure you did. But I can see I've got my work cut out for me this time. That's okay.” He skimmed his thumb over her knuckles before she jerked her hand free. “In fact, I think I'm going to enjoy it.” “I don't know why I waste my time trying to mend fences with you. You're as arrogant as you ever were.” “Just the way you like me, sweetheart.

Friends, lovers, or nothing, we can really only ever be one.

She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her.

Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

Do not believe that living together before marriage guarantees the future. By burning certain stages, you risk burning love itself. Time needs to be respected gradually, just like the expressions of love.

In my own personal experience in my life, people that I argue with or have confrontations with are the people I love and care about the most. I wouldn't think to argue with somebody I couldn't give two s**ts about. There's no point in arguing if you don't care.

I don't know that sex always has to have feelings, but I think that friendship always does.

I'm good in bed, actually, and I think I could learn to be a good communicator, too. The only trouble with that is it leads to marriage.

I thought it was interesting when [Bill Clinton] said, I married my best friend, because people are always asking, what is the nature of their marriage.

To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.

I'll always remain friends with men I've been in love with. Each one gave me so much, in so many ways.

I always think that if I'm with somebody, they're better than me. That's why I love them. They're amazing.