Sarah Dessen Quotes

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.

People are complicated; you put two of them together and it's generally a mess, but hopefully a beautiful mess.

A relationship is just a giant grey thing. Just beautiful and also frustrating. And it involves everything.

Relationships are very complex. It's very unusual to see something which is so 'complex portrayed on screen.

Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my relationship with myself, my relationship with God or an idea, and then usually somebody, a real person. I try to operate on all three levels at the same time, and it's difficult, but I never want to have a break-up song or something like that.

It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.

I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

Whenever I go out with other married couples, I like to bring along a single crackhead. Just to spice things up.

As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour.

I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with.

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too.

Real love is strange and changeable… but also somehow constant.

You've a very important, early decision to make in your life: are you going to be alone, or are you going to be with somebody else? Are you going to be sane, or not lonely? A couple is a strange thing; it's an organism that's half as intelligent as the most intelligent member. And you both know who it is!

You can love someone you mistrust.

There is no formula to relationships.

This film [Teknolust] in particular, showing the way in which having a sexual dialogue with someone can be something developing and changeable and maybe uncomfortable and complicated. Just complicated and human, no more and no less.

Like species, couples die out or evolve.

Some people get divorced, they leave the person for a couple of years, then they remarry. Relationships are very, very strange.

The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.

Relationships are not straight forward. They're not black and white. Sometimes things don't always going in a straight line, and that's okay. Love can be very confusing.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

Yeah well I think her relationships with people become really clear, and I think they all make tons of sense in line with Ultron as well.

We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.