Sarah Dessen Quotes
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And the rest is history,' I said. Nah.' He shook his head. 'The rest is now.
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So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.
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I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once.
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It's all about you, Colie." She touched one finger to her temple, tap tap tap. "Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine." There is something infectious about confidence. And for that one moment, with my eyebrows burning and my eyes watering, I believed. "And good hair never hurt either.
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Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.
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I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.
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Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38
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For once, you believed in yourself. You believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.
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Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.
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But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.
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Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it
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There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee.
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How weird that must be, to stay the same as everyone else changes.
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Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.
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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.
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When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.
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I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.
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After all with me & Marshall, it had never been about words or conversation, where there was too much to be risked or lost. Here, though, in the quiet pressed against each other, this felt familiar to me. And it was nice to let someone get close again, even if it was just for a little while.
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Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.
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I walked over, my eyes scanning Luna Blu, my house, and Dave's. But it was the building behind them, that empty hotel, that had the tiniest light, provided by one word, written in fluorescent paint. Maybe it wasn't what was once there, in real life. But in this one, it said it all: STAY.
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We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.
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How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.
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But it was important to simply be sought, even if you didn‟t ever want to be found.
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It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.