Sarah Dessen: Trending quotes

“How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.”

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Wes wants to be with Macy. And Macy, whether she'll admit it or not, wants to be with Wes. And yet they're not together, which is not only unjust, but when you think about it, tragical!”

Source: The Truth About Forever

“It's not always easy being her daughter.'

I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.”

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.”

Source: Along for the Ride

“It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.”

Source: The Truth About Forever

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

“It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.”

“Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.”

Source: Along for the Ride

“It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.”

Source: Along for the Ride

“Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie of all.”

Source: Along for the Ride

“You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.”

Source: Just Listen

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Variant: You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.
Source: This Lullaby

“Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in.”

“That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.”

Source: Along for the Ride

“I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right?”

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.”

Source: Just Listen

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“Harder to get in than out, like so little else.”

“I told you, everyone understands a quest.”

Source: Just Listen

“Rogerson, I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, where would I find the pelagic zone?”

Source: Along for the Ride

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

“I don't lie."
"You don't lie," I repeated.
"That's what I said."
"Ever."
"Nope."
Sure you don't, I thought.”