Sarah Dessen Quotes page 8

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

Source: Along for the Ride

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

Source: Lock and Key

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

Source: Along for the Ride

“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.”

Source: Just Listen

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

Source: The Truth About Forever

“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.”

Source: Along for the Ride

“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.”

Source: The Truth About Forever

“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.”

Source: Lock and Key

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

“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.”

Source: This Lullaby

“What happened to goodbye?”

Source: The Truth About Forever

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

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

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

Source: Someone Like You

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

Source: Just Listen

“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

“It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.”

Source: Just Listen

“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

“It’s still a memory worth having, even if it’s not exactly what you imagined”

Source: This Lullaby

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

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

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

Source: Just Listen

“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”

Source: The Truth About Forever

“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.”

“True friendship is a promise you keep forever.”

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“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.”

Source: The Truth About Forever

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

What Happened To Goodbye (2011)
Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“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.”

Source: This Lullaby

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

Source: Someone Like You

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

Source: Along for the Ride

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

Source: Saint Anything

“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.”

Source: The Truth About Forever

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

Source: Lock and Key

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

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

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

Source: Along for the Ride

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

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

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

Source: This Lullaby

“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.”

Source: Just Listen