Jenny Zhang Quotes

It's easy to fall in love, but it's a lot harder to sustain love.

I had a different perception of what a relationship or love is like. I was all giddy-headed and fairytale about it in my head, but it's so different. There's a lot of restraint that you've got to have, compromising in certain situations - and you've got to have a lot of respect.

Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!

The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

I'm amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long.

I don't like flirting, and when I love someone, I always give everything, maybe too much. And then you have to work at it all the time. I mean, the first months are always great, but afterwards it becomes hard work. It's not as passionate and crazy.

Love is a lot more complicated than people think.

We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.

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

I think the thing about love is that even though the things around us change, we as human beings, a lot of the ways we interact, and the ways we love each other is timeless. It requires trust, honesty, commitment, romance, and physical chemistry.

Falling in love is really relatively easy compared to staying in love and building a family that lasts.

If you really love your partner, then the relationship is worth fighting for in the end.

Love is a lot of magic and madness followed by marriage. These are the three M's for me. I think these three keep life intact. I am a very filmi person and would like the magic and the madness to remain in my marriage forever.

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

Relationships, if you want them to work, take work. The biggest thing that I learned growing up, and even now, is if it's right, it's worth it. It's just a matter of finding that person you want to be with.

The best proof of love is trust.

I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard.

Marriage is hard work, period.

Love is hard.

The deal is: most men just want to marry someone who is nice to them.

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.