Sarah Dessen Quotes

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“I am not breaking my rules,' I snapped, hating that I'd ended up on the advice-recieving end of things, jumping from Dear Remy to Confused in Cincinnati all in one summer.”

“Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.”

“I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.”

“Life isn't fair," Owen told her. "Get used to it.”

“You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try”

“I didn't trot my pain out to show around. I kept it better hidden than anyone. I did.”

“But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn't succeed. That's what drove me, all those nights studying. The fact that so many figured I couldn't do it.”

“Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.”

“I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.”

“Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.”

“You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.”

“Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.”

“Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again.”

“Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.”

“Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.”

“Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?" I asked him.
He looked at me and then said, "You're here, aren't you?”

“Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.”

“So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.”

“And don't change for a guy, ever," Leah added. "If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.”

“It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.”

“Life isn't only about the big moments whether they be good or bad. Maybe it’s about the small things that stretch out to strengthen the most tenuous bound.”

“Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be close.”

“When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.”

“Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.”

“So I learned another system: When in doubt, keep it out – out of earshot, out of the house – even if this meant, really, just keeping it in.”

“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.”

“Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.”

“But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.”

“What you do in your dreams is never your choice. But it made me happy anyway.”

“I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.”

“The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly.”