Rainbow Rowell Quotes

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

Those whom we first love we seldom marry

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

I thought the whole thing was you fall in love with somebody, and it's so wonderful, and it's so euphoric, and it's going to be that way forever. Nobody told me that two years after you fall in love, you're going to come down off the euphoria.

When you're younger, love is this magic thing where the heavens open up. You live 40 years past that, you realize sometimes the heavens close down.

I just think love is stupid.

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

When I want to end a relationship I just say, 'You know, I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have your children.' Sometimes they leave skid marks.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

I think once you enter the dating world and you realise it's nothing like those Disney movies you watched when you were a little girl, you just become more guarded.

I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

I think my generation is extremely cynical about love.

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

...even though you said yes to the wrong man, I hope that won't cause you to say no to the right one.

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.