Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels Quotes

“Being in the habit of saying "Thank you," of making sure that people receive attention so they know you value them, of not presuming that people will always be there--this is a good habit, regardless...make sure to give virtual and actual high-fives to those who rock and rock hard.”
― Sarah Wendell, Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels

“To quote French author François Mauriac, ‘Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who your are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.”
― Sarah Wendell, Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels

“If a person who is content with his life meets someone who makes everything just a little bit more challenging, who both fits and doesn't fit into his life and his routine, to quote Guy Fieri, it is On Like Donkey Kong: swing the rope, jump the barrel, and save the princess.”
― Sarah Wendell, Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels

“Alphole heroes are just domineering assholes disguising themselves as alpha males. Real alpha males don't need to be assholes.”
― Sarah Wendell, Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels

“Romance means believing you are worthy of a happy ending.”
― Sarah Wendell, Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels

“One way to demonstrate courtship as a matter of course in an established relationship is to remember that courtship is the act of trying to persuade someone to choose you—by demonstrating that you’ve chosen them. If you look at each day of your relationship as another opportunity to choose to be with the person you’re with, you’ll display those feelings of affection in your actions and your words—and you’ll refrain from taking that person’s presence for granted.”
― Sarah Wendell, Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels

“You don’t see adult gamers being accused of an inability to discern when one is a human driving a real car and when one is a yellow dinosaur driving a Mario Kart, but romance readers hear about their unrealistic expectations of men almost constantly.”
― Sarah Wendell, Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels