Sarah Dessen Quotes
Then I'd crawl back into bed, smelling her all around me, and tell myself that next time, I would lock that window. But I never did.
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I told you, everyone understands a quest.
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So," she went on, "it got me thinking about what cost beauty. Or for that matter, what cost anything? Would you trade love for beauty? Or happiness for beauty? Could a gorgeous person with a mean streak be a worthy trade? And if you did make the trade, decide you'd take that beautiful swan and hope it wouldn't turn on you, what would you do if it did?
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No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.
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The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.
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You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
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Life's too short to worry about the little things. Enjoy what you have today, not what you might get tomorrow
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Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment.
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If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.
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And don't change for a guy, ever," Leah added. "If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.
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You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can't exist without the other. It's sort of a hippie thing.
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Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.
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Once, this had been the life I’d wanted. Even chosen. Now, though, I couldn’t believe that there had been a time when this kind of monotony and silence, this most narrow of existences, had been preferable. Then again, once, I’d never known anything else.
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This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.
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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.
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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.
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Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.
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This felt right. Not just leaving, but how I was doing it. Without regret, without second guessing. And with Wes right there, holding the door open for me as I walked out into the light.
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Morris was not the type to offer a hug or even hold your hand. But there was something in his quiet indignation at the universe then--and Luke, now--that was just the kind of comfort I needed. "I'm such a mess," I said. "We're almost off the island and I didn't even ask you where you were going." He shrugged. "No place. Wherever you are.
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You don't have to make things harder then they have to be just to prove a point.
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Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.
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I think if you're going to show a true representation of any one life, it can't be about any one thing. I try to see more of a full picture, with the romance just a single part.
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Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.
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How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it was the same for everyone, that simple.
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I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more.
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