Sarah Dessen Quotes
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I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.
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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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For once, you believed in yourself. You believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.
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I trailed off and he didn't push me to finish. I was finding that I liked that.
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Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.
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But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life. It was no longer just creeping up, peeking over the horizon, but instead lingering in plain sight.
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I bet you can't eat ten bananas!" "I bet you're right.
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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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Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.
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When I was in high school, I was always really envious of those girls who seemed to have everything: the perfect hair, perfect clothes, perfect boyfriend, perfect life. It wasn't until I was older that I realized that nobody's life is perfect, and that those girls probably had a lot of the same problems I did.
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Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike." "What?" "He'll understand.
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Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.
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I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.
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I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am the shade of gray, the glass half empty or full, depending on your view. In my life, there has been little that I have done first or better than the one preceding or following me. Of all of us, though, I am the only one who has been broken.
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I don't lie." "You don't lie," I repeated. "That's what I said." "Ever." "Nope." Sure you don't, I thought.
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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 was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.
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I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.
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I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.
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I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.
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Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.
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The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.
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And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing.
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When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.