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“Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

“If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside… It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Variant: Being self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside. It starts with the rest of the world and leads back to you.
Source: Keeping the Moon

“And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“When you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

“Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over…”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding… that's where things get sticky.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

“Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features were there. but the colors, the zigzags and plaids, the bits and pieces that made up me, Halley, weren't yet in place. Scarlett's vibrant reds and golds helped some, but I was still waiting.”

Sarah Dessen

Someone Like You (1998)

“With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“The truth was, there was no way everything could be the Best. Sometimes, when it came to events and people, it had to be okay to just.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

“The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“Why does she have wings?'
So she can fly.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.”

Sarah Dessen

“There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.'

'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride