Sarah Dessen citations

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“On est tous quelqu'un en puissance.”

“Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.”

“All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.”

“You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.”

“What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a project, but a prize. you know?”

“It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.”

“No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.”

“Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.”

“Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside”

“The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote”

“Wherever you will go,
I will let you down,
But this lullaby goes on.”

“Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.”

“There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.”

“What you have to decide… is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.”

“I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered.”

“There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.”

“I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.”

“I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.”

“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”

“Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.”

“So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.”

“I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect… As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”

“You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.”

“An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.”

“the truth about forever is that it is happening right now”

“Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.
-Maggie”

“If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.”

“Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.”

“I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.”

“You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.”