Sarah Dessen Quotes

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling.

I've never grown into loving someone. It's, like, either right away or slowly sinks in.

Love doesn't care how much money you have.

Loving isn't liking and it takes liking to live together.

If she doesn't really love you, then it's over. And if she does love you, then love will win out.

We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to 'like' one another. Love governs the will: 'liking' is a matter of sense and sensibility. Nevertheless, if we really love others it will not be too hard to like them also.

Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.

You use a different part of your heart with girls.

I don't have to forgive you, Cath said. It's not like that with you. You're just in with me. Always. No matter what happens.

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

You say love is just a four letter word.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

Love is a very important part of life, and you have to give in to it. But after a while it ceases to be such an important force in life, and that's the time when you should give in to age and stop doing it, if you don't have the impulse any more.

Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.

The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

Eleanor,” he said, just because he liked saying it, “why do you like me?” “I don’t like you.” He waited. And waited… Then he started to laugh. “You’re kind of mean,” he said. “Don’t laugh. It just encourages me.

The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.