Sarah Dessen citations

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“On est tous quelqu'un en puissance.”

“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.”

“See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which.”

“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.”