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“Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Stupidity , Learning

“But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Life

“Watching them, I thought again of how we can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Variant: We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.
Source: Lock and Key

“Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

Life , Understanding

“This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Way , Time

“It's not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.”

Sarah Dessen book That Summer

Source: That Summer

Guy

“There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Understanding

“This true difference in me now: I had these experiances, these tales, more of this life. So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Life

“If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Variant: If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don't change because of it. It's just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.
Source: Just Listen

Change , Parting

“But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Silence

“Forever [is] so many different things. It is always changing… it is twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wish would last and last”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Change

“She can be anything, Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. And so can you.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Dreamland (2000)
Source: Wir sehen uns im Traumland

“It was like reaching for someone's hand, then missing their fingers, or even their arm, and hitting their shoulder instead. But no matter. You hang on tight anyway.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“But now, I was beginning to wonder if you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's enough- more than enough, even- just to be there.
~Ruby, pg 399”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Variant: If you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's enough - more than enough, even - just to be there.
Source: Lock and Key

“Well," I said finally, knowing he was waiting, "you make me laugh."
He nodded. "And?"
"You're pretty good-looking."
"Pretty good-looking? I called you beautiful."
"You want to be beautiful?" I asked him.
"Are you saying I'm not?”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Beauty , Waiting

“Family isnt about blood relationships, its about the meaning behind them. I relize now that sharing chromosoms is not the only way to having a family, its about the friendship behind it.”

Sarah Dessen
Friendship , Family , Way

“Maybe, you just misplaced it, you know? It's been there. But you just haven't been looking in the right spot. Because lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced… that means it's still around, somewhere. Just not where you thought.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby