Sarah Dessen Quotes
-
I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.
-
"What was the name of Pygmalion's sister?" She blinked, twice, obviously surprised. "Ummm," she said, keeping her eyes on me. "I don't know." Rogerson did," I told her. "Rogerson knew everything."
-
I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her eyes, downing vodka and sobbing uncontrollably. "We can't heal you at Evergreen", the very somber voiceover said. "But we can help you to heal yourself." It had become our own running joke, applicable to almost anything. "Hey Cass, "I'd say, "hand me that toothpaste." "Caitlin," she'd say, her voice dark and serious. "I can't hand you the toothpaste. But I CAN help you hand the toothpaste to yourself.
-
Honesty in principle was one thing. In someone’s face, it was another.
-
But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge
-
She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.
-
This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn’t just a season or a time but a whole world I’d forgotten. I’d never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.
-
But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.
-
For once, you believed in yourself. You believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.
-
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.
-
I wasn’t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn’t that I wasn’t right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn’t right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things didn’t come easy for, someone like me.
-
Again, it occurred to me how weird it was to be permanent in a place that to everyone else was only temporary. Like I could never be sure if they were the ones who weren't real, or if I was.
-
It's only advice. Ignore it if you want.
-
I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.
-
It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.
-
Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy.
-
Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.
-
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.
-
When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.
-
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.
-
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.
-
He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.
-
None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.
-
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.