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“He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.”

Source: Someone Like You

“See you in dreamland.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

“It was a weird kind of loneliness, feeling that some of my closest friends didn’t actually know I existed.”

Source: Saint Anything

“We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

“Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is ialways the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.”

Sarah Dessen book That Summer

Source: That Summer (1996)
Context: Maybe not, she said as we came to the car. But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.

“Look at it this way: I might be saying you're fat, but at least I'm not punching you in the face.'
Are those the only options?'
Not always. Just sometimes.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“nothing is guaranteed…. So don't be afraid. Be alive.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“Maybe marriage, like life, isn't only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things—like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day—that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“What was the name of Pygmalion's sister?”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

“Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

“It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“And the rest is history,' I said.
Nah.' He shook his head. 'The rest is now.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key