Sarah Dessen Quotes
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So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.
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“In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.” “How do you win?” he asked. “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.
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It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.
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Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.
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Honesty in principle was one thing. In someone’s face, it was another.
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Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once.
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Оne word could change the whole world.
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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.
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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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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.
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She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.
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But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.
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Its been a long night" "aren't they all?
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Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy.
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Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.
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No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.
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I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all.
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I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.
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So I learned another system: When in doubt, keep it out – out of earshot, out of the house – even if this meant, really, just keeping it in.
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You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.
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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.
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Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.
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None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.
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Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.