Sarah Dessen Quotes page 4

“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

“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.”

Source: Keeping the Moon

“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

“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

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

Source: Dreamland (2000)

“Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.”

Source: Just Listen

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

“Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.”

“Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.”

Source: Lock and Key

“If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.”

Source: Keeping the Moon

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside… It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.”

“And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.”

Variant: Being self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside. It starts with the rest of the world and leads back to you.
Source: Keeping the Moon

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“When you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well.”

“It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.”

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over…”

Source: Dreamland (2000)

“Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding… that's where things get sticky.”

Source: The Truth About Forever

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.”

“Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”

Source: Dreamland (2000)

“When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features were there. but the colors, the zigzags and plaids, the bits and pieces that made up me, Halley, weren't yet in place. Scarlett's vibrant reds and golds helped some, but I was still waiting.”

Source: Just Listen

“With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.”

Someone Like You (1998)

“The truth was, there was no way everything could be the Best. Sometimes, when it came to events and people, it had to be okay to just.”

Source: Lock and Key

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

“The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.”

“Because maybe, the best of times were yet to come. You never knew.”

Source: Lock and Key

“Why does she have wings?'
So she can fly.”

Source: Along for the Ride

“Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.”

Source: The Truth About Forever

“There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.”

“Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.'

'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan.”

Source: Just Listen

“Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.”

Source: Along for the Ride

“There comes a point when things are undeniable and can't be hidden any longer. Even from yourself.”

Source: Lock and Key

“I’d done the right thing. I always did. It just would have been nice if someone had noticed.”

Source: Lock and Key

“Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with.”

Source: Saint Anything

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.”

“Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it”

Source: Along for the Ride

“When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.”

Source: Keeping the Moon

“I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.”

Source: Lock and Key

“Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?"
He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.”

Source: Dreamland (2000)

“See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something.”

Source: Along for the Ride

“It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.”

Source: Keeping the Moon

“Too many locks, not enough keys.”

Source: The Truth About Forever

“That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.”