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Love Quotes by Sarah Dessen

83 Love quotes by Sarah Dessen

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Love isn’t perfect, so you often have to bend, compromise, or give something up for something greater. The quotes show love can be fleeting, like a night or a text, yet it can feel solid enough to hold in your hand. They also point out that flaws make love interesting and that love can be unpredictable.

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Love can make up for a lot.

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Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.

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“I want the white one”

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“For you, I wish for second chances”

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“Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all.”

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We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.

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It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.

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“Me and Ethan, dancing in the dark at the end of the world.”

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“You can't measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments.”

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The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote

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I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

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“You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.”

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“When you've never gotten love from someone, you dob't know what it might look like if it ever does appear.”

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I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like,…

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Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're…

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We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the…

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I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be…

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Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

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“You can’t measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments. Some in life are light, like a touch.…

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Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all…

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Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you'll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a…

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“For whatever reason - time, circumstance, distance- he wasn't able to give it to me himself. But he did give me Benji,…

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What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they…

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“Love is an excuse to put up with the shit that you shouldn't. That's how it gets you. It throws off the…

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I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the…

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It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that…

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When you've never gotten love from someone, you don't know what it might look like if it ever does appear. You look…

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I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, its perfect As long as…

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So," she went on, "it got me thinking about what cost beauty. Or for that matter, what cost anything? Would you trade…

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“Everything seemed bright and different after so long in the darkness. Even though most of the businesses were closed, there was one…

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“Then," Kristy continued,nodding at her,"life was very short,literally.But now that I'm better,it seems so long I have to squint to see even…

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“Everything in life had its phases, and if you were smart, you learned to appreciate them all. What really mattered, though, were…

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“It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made…

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The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi…

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“What did it take to claim a person, really? One perfect night? A few weeks of phone calls, hundreds of texts, all…

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“I’d never been in love, never felt that surge of feeling or that fall from its graces. I’d only watched as others…

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“You can't be together, which is exactly why you want to be.”

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Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.

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“As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real”

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Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

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