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“But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.”
“You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Variant: because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. no matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment.
Source: Just Listen

“Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“When you have lost hope, you lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Nothing had been okay, not for a long time. And every moment that I thought I was getting close, like the one I’d had earlier, seemed to remind the universe that I didn’t deserve that, not yet.”

Sarah Dessen

Source: Saint Anything

“Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.”

Sarah Dessen

Source: Someone Like You

“As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.”

Sarah Dessen

“All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland

“My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest. page 40000”

Sarah Dessen book That Summer

Source: That Summer (1996)

“You want me to give her a key?" the guy asked.
"I want you to give her a possibility," she told him, looking at my necklace again. "And that's what a key represents. An open door, a chance. You know?”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

“When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I’d won a prize, because he was so sparing with them.”

Sarah Dessen

Source: Saint Anything

“For any of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred of years from now. You can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”

Sarah Dessen