Ally Carter Quotes

Taking chances for the people you care most about is easy. It's hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions. But when I have to take chances about people I love, relationships, my daughter and immediate family, those decisions are easy. I make them without even thinking about it, it is usually something that just has to be done. You don't question anything, you just go for it.

The best proof of love is trust.

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

I do want love. Genuine love.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.

If someone really loves you, they'll do the right thing... for you.

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

For me, family always comes first; I would do anything to protect them.

To General McChrystal, those men on his team are his family. You know, these guys, they would do anything. They would die for each other.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

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.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

You can't explain why people are friends and why those friendships last, but there certainly is magic in it. It's just something that you treasure.

Often we think love is a feeling: that you spontaneously experience it.