Sarah Dessen citations

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“On est tous quelqu'un en puissance.”

“It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.”

“You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.”

“But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.”

“I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.”

“Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.”

“This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.”

“But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it.
-Eli”

“Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.”

“If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.”

“Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?”

“He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in, or you weren't.”

“The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.”

“It's so, so stupid what we do to ourselves because we're afraid. It's so stupid.”

“And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge of the cliff, blinking, wondering if I'd ever jumped at all. It's not supposed to be like this.”

“After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.”

“The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.”

“Who says there has to be a point?" He asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.”

“No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood. If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right.”

“And always remember how much your crazy sister loves you.”

“People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less”

“Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.”

“Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.”

“I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.”

“I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.”

“I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between.”

“If you're not getting hurt, you're not riding hard enough.”

“Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.”

“I meant what I said to you. I wasn't playing some kind of summer game. Everything I said was true, from the first day. EVERY GODDAMN WORD.”

“Maybe it was true, and being a girl could be about interest rates and skinny jeans, riding bikes and wearing pink. Not about any one thing, but everything.”