Sarah Dessen: Trending quotes (page 23)

“Again, it occurred to me how weird it was to be permanent in a place that to everyone else was only temporary. Like I could never be sure if they were the ones who weren't real, or if I was.”

“As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.”

“Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.”

“Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.”

“Now, see," Wes said, nodding at my plate, "this is going to blow your mind."
I looked at him. "It's a waffle, not the second coming.”

“The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in… protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.”

“Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.”

“I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that.”

“Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour.”

“I tried to hold myself apart, showing only what I wanted, doling out bits and pieces of who I was. But that only works out for so long. Eventually, even the smallest fragments can't help but, make a whole.”

“It was so easy to disown what you couldn’t recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling”

“You punched him by accident.”

“…It’s not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.”

“It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.”

“I planned my whole future around Adam," she said now, quietly. "And now I have nothing." "No," I told her, "now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.”

“It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.”

“Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.”

“It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.”

“Relationships evolve, just like people do. Just because you know someone doesn't mean you know everything about them.”