Sarah Dessen Quotes

Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

There is no love without sacrifices.

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.

I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Hanajima: To truly love someone is to always put thier feelings before your own...No matter what.

I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself.

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Tell the people... please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I'm suffering a lot, but I love them.

Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.

If we really want to love, if we really want to live, we must love until it hurts . . . No Rotarian whose motto is Service Above Self, I think, should call himself a Rotarian if he does not make time to serve . . . If we love, we begin to serve

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

Sacrifice, that's what we do for the people we love.