Sarah Dessen: Trending quotes (page 20)

“I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.”

“Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible”

“It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.”

“I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.”

“It’s still a memory worth having, even if it’s not exactly what you imagined”

“What defines you isn’t how many times you
crash, but the number of times you get back.”

“In every friendship, at some point comes a test. Never before in my experience, however, had it involved food.”

“Funny how a beautiful song could tell such an ugly story.”

“I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.”

“Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.”

“You just walk over there and into the office and say, 'Hey, be my prom date,'" he said. "It's that simple.”

“I was so scared about being discovered, but nobody came. Nobody heard. In my own ears, though, my sobs sounded primal and scary, like something I would have turned off if I'd been able to.”

“None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.”

“Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all.

~Ruby, pg 38”

“Conciseness is underrated”

“We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.”

“talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.”

“True friendship is a promise you keep forever.”

“But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.”