Sarah Dessen: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”

“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”

“It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.”

“It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”

“You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.”

“I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.”

“Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.”

“Silence is so freaking loud”

“Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.”

“There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.”

“Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.”

“All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.”

“You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.”

“What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a project, but a prize. you know?”

“It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.”

“No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.”

“Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.”

“Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside”

“The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote”