Ann Brashares Quotes

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

I'm up for it. Whatever it is. As long as it means I'll always be with you.

We're married. We are one now. There's no running away. We have to deal with things together and figure them out, and that's the greatest gift. I'm in it. People ask me, 'How do you maintain a relationship?' I don't know, but all I do know is that I chose Sara to be the one, and when I choose something, that's all that matters, and I'm totally in.

At last I took one big, callused hand and slid forward so I knelt on the boards between his knees. I laid my head against his chest, and felt his breath stir my hair. I had no words, but I had made my choice. "'Whither thou goest,'" I said. "'I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried.' Be it Scottish hill or southern forest. You do what you have to; I'll be there.

I’d rather die than you not be by my side.

I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.

What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.

A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I'm committed to loving you, then it's not possible for me to 'fall out of love.'

My father would go to work and try to survive every day just to get home to my mother so they could be at each other's side. That's what I want.

Whoever I'm with, that's the person I'm with. That's the way I'm wired.

Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes didn't see - or refused to see - what the people around him were really up to. But everything I did, I did for Ronnie. I did for love.

In that portion of time where my parents were together, I got to see great love, great loyalty, and teamwork.

I live by family over everything.

I would never leave my baby and my wife. I would die first before I leave them on the side of the road.

All I want to do for the rest of my life is be with Diana 24/7. We're creative people, and we love to work together.

We?" I asked. Of course. I'm not leaving you alone on this, no matter what. You know I'd never abandon you.

If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee

For you, a thousand times over

I wanted to be rid of him," he says. He raises my chin with his thumb. "But not if it meant being rid of you. I climbed in beside you, and you put your head in my lap. You can't think I would have left you like that." "Look what it got you," I say. "Tea in bed and you here in front of me," he says. "It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.

Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.

I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.

I always used to say to my wife, the thing that I loved most about us is that we are a team, we are impenetrable in that respect.