Sarah Dessen Quotes
-
With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.
-
How fast were you?" Wes asked me. I said, "Not that fast." "You mean you couldn't... fly?" he said, smiling at me.
-
I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.
-
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.
-
My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.
-
I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.
-
Maybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the distance across, and the way over or around it, whichever you chose in the end.
-
Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.
-
Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.
-
There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee.
-
I jammed my hand in my jacket pocket, bracing myself fo the next hit, and fel something. Something grainy and samll, sticking to the tips of my fingers: the sand from Commons Park. Oh Cass, I thought. I miss you so, so much.
-
You can't act like you care about someone but not let them care about you.
-
I just can't ever be a free spirit and just relax. When it comes to work, this is good. I'm very disciplined, which with writing is often half the battle, or more. But it also means that if I want to, say, play hooky and chocolate and watch Bravo all afternoon, I feel horribly guilty. I wish I could find a nice balance.
-
'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
-
Can she be divorced?" I asked. "And famous for her commercials and ideas?" She can be anything," Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. "And so can you.
-
Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy.
-
It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.
-
If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.
-
Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it
-
Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.
-
If you're not getting hurt, you're not riding hard enough.
-
It hadn't even occured to me that somebody would believe mine.
-
It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.
-
Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.