Sarah Dessen citations

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“On est tous quelqu'un en puissance.”

“You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.”

“How weird that must be, to stay the same as everyone else changes.”

“Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.”

“I jammed my hand in my jacket pocket, bracing myself for the next hit, and feel something. Something grainy and small, sticking to the tips of my fingers: the sand from Commons Park.”

“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”

“What defines you isn’t how many times you
crash, but the number of times you get back.”

“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.”