Sarah Dessen: Trending quotes

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

Source: Along for the Ride

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

Source: Saint Anything

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“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.”

Source: Lock and Key

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“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.”

Variant: It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.
Source: Along for the Ride

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

Variant: What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back.
Source: Along for the Ride

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

Source: Saint Anything

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

Variant: funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story
Source: Lock and Key

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

Source: Lock and Key

“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.”

Source: Along for the Ride

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

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

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“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”

Source: Lock and Key

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

Source: Lock and Key

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

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

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“True friendship is a promise you keep forever.”