Rainbow Rowell Quotes

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

When my wife gets mad at me, I remind myself that she is much smarter than I am and so I probably deserve it, even if I don't really understand it!

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.

Love is saying you're sorry. It's the opposite of those cherub posters that say, 'Love is never having to say you're sorry.' Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven't met that quota, something's wrong.

He gave her an indulgent look. "I'll forgive these rash words for now." She sputtered, "Forgive? Let's talk about who should be forgiving who.""Whom," he corrected."Shut up! I'm in the right here. Remember all those things you did to me?"

After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.

There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.

A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.

The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.

Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't.