Sarah Dessen citations

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“On est tous quelqu'un en puissance.”

“See you in dreamland.”

“It was a weird kind of loneliness, feeling that some of my closest friends didn’t actually know I existed.”

“We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.”

“Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.”

“But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is ialways the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.”

“Look at it this way: I might be saying you're fat, but at least I'm not punching you in the face.'
Are those the only options?'
Not always. Just sometimes.”

“Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.”

“nothing is guaranteed…. So don't be afraid. Be alive.”

“But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.”

“I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.”

“Maybe marriage, like life, isn't only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things—like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day—that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond.”

“What was the name of Pygmalion's sister?”

“Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.”

“It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will.”

“It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.”

“How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone.”

“But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.”

“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.”

“And the rest is history,' I said.
Nah.' He shook his head. 'The rest is now.”

“You really get to meet people on such a personal level. There's a real bonding in someone beating the crap out of you.”

“For most of us, once something was busted, it was game over. I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.”

“She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.”

“We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone's eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves.”

“Nate: “And,” he said, “boys at twelve aren’t exactly slick with the ladies.”
Ruby: “’Slick with the ladies’?” I said. “Are you twelve?”

“Fine… a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.”

“Oh, God," I said.
"No, it's Dexter," he replied, offering me his hand, which I ignored.
He glanced behind him, then back at me. "I'll see you soon," he said, and grinned at
me.
"Like hell," I replied”

“I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.”

“A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.”

“Suddenly, I felt so helpless. If I hated the crowds but also my own company, where did that leave me?”