Sarah Dessen Quotes

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

adore, v.t. To venerate expectantly.

Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside.

Putting all your eggs in one basket has never worked for me. Personally, I find if I decide too quickly that someone is my match, I start to get a little nutty.

I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.

I think I just need to be consistent in everything that I do.

Love makes you blind. One day you're in love, the next day you wake up and realize that not everything is perfect.

I always say fitness is the first step to greatness. And I try to encourage my fans to be on the same page as that. Because fitness is the first step to setting a habit that you necessarily don't want to do but are still committed to doing every single day. And so I think that's why I always, always try to get a workout in.

I know you want me to let you in on some big secret to success in the NBA. The secret is there is no secret. It's just boring old habits.

Excellence is not a single act. You are what you repeatedly do.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

When I am in a relationship, I give it my 100 per cent. But then, if it doesn't work, you cannot help it. You cannot move ahead with something which isn't working.

It's such a long season, and there's so many games, so many trips, you've got to build habits and be consistent with what you do.

Women can be made to feel like that makes them seem 'too demanding,' but it's better than wasting time on someone who isn't planning any future with you.

I think there are beautiful moments. These days everybody expects that fairy tale , that you're going to be together forever with somebody and I don't really subscribe to that. I'd love that to happen if that happened, but 10 years is enough. 10 years is a good thing with somebody, I think. It's a nice thing. A lot of good love can happen in 10 years.

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

You don't always marry the love of your life.

Twenty-six,” you said. “One for each day we’ve been together, Min.”Somebody oohed. Somebody shushed them. “And I hope that someday I’ll do another something stupid and I’ll have to say it a million times because that’s how long it’ll be, together with you, Min. With you.

Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.

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.

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.