Sarah Dessen Quotes

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“It was just perfect, just right all at once.”

“Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.”

“You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.”

“What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?”

“Told you. Everything sounds better in the car wash.”

“Maybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the distance across, and the way over or around it, whichever you chose in the end.”

“its been a long night" "aren't they all?”

“and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.”

“After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.”

“It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.”

“Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.”

“It's nice to have options even if you can't take them.”

“What happened to goodbye?”

“The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.”

“People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.”

“Just because something’s damaged doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be treated with respect”

“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”

“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.”

“I felt tears prick my eyes as I looked down at the model again, looking at that girl and boy on the curb. Forever in that place, together.”

“I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.”

“As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to leave. We were even. But I knew my mother wouldn't see it that way. Lately, we didn't seem to see anything the same.”

“We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.”

“Sometimes, fewer choices can be a good thing.”

“it sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics…”

“But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B. O. There's no hiding it if it's there.”

“I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a. m.”

“It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car.
"Most things are”

“You can never be sure of anyone until you're close enough to see them clearly.”

“Once, I was easy. Now, I was choosy. See? Big difference.”

“Honesty in principle was one thing. In someone’s face, it was another.”

“I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved,… and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn't giving him.”

“I knew that it wouldn’t last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.”

“I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.”