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“You really get to meet people on such a personal level. There's a real bonding in someone beating the crap out of you.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Variant: There’s a real bonding in someone beating the crap out of you. - Rolly
Source: Just Listen

“For most of us, once something was busted, it was game over. I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.”

Sarah Dessen

Source: Saint Anything

“She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

“We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone's eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“Nate: “And,” he said, “boys at twelve aren’t exactly slick with the ladies.”
Ruby: “’Slick with the ladies’?” I said. “Are you twelve?”

Sarah Dessen

“Fine… a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Oh, God," I said.
"No, it's Dexter," he replied, offering me his hand, which I ignored.
He glanced behind him, then back at me. "I'll see you soon," he said, and grinned at
me.
"Like hell," I replied”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

“A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“Suddenly, I felt so helpless. If I hated the crowds but also my own company, where did that leave me?”

Sarah Dessen

Source: Saint Anything

“Theres this other half of him i dont know of, its like he is trying it keep it a secret…. if he would just let me inside so i can help”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Variant: Being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed especially when the rest of the world could be so mean
Source: Just Listen

“We can all be beautiful girls.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

“This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“Pretend to be a delinquent?" I asked clarifying.
"You can do it," Dave advised me. "Just don't smile, and try to look like you're considering stealing something.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core.”

Sarah Dessen

Source: Saint Anything

“When faced with the scariest of things, all you want to do is turn away, hide in your own invisible place. But you can't. That's why it's not only important for us to be seen, but to have someone to look for us, as well.”

Sarah Dessen

Source: Saint Anything

“For all the invisible girls and for my readers, for seeing me”

Sarah Dessen

Source: Saint Anything