Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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 was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.
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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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There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.
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Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.
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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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In Anger Management,' he said,'we had to do all this role-playing stuff. You know, to get used to handling things in a less volatile way.' 'You role-played,' I said, trying to picture this. 'I had to. It was court-ordered.
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It hadn't even occured to me that somebody would believe mine.
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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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I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.
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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.
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If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.
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Obviously it won't all run smoothly. But it's important to awknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn fromt them.
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Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.
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In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.
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Fall in love with someone who truly deserves your heart. Not with someone who plays with it.
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I bet you can't eat ten bananas!" "I bet you're right.
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The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.
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I listened for the voice I knew so well, the one I always heard at the beginning. Good girl, Macy! You're doing great! You know the first steps are the hardest part! They were. Sometimes I felt so out of sync, it was all could do not to quit after a few strides. But I kept on, as I did now. I had to, to get to the next part, this part, where I finally caught up with Wes, my shadow aligning itself with his, an dhe turned to look at me, pushing his hair our of his eyes.
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When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. When I didn't, he moved in closer, his hands smoothing over my shoulders, and in my mind I saw myself retreating a million times when people tried to do this same thing: my sister or my mother, pulling back and into myself, tucking everything out of sight, where only I knew where to find it. This time, though, I gave in. I let Wes pull me against him, pressing my head against his chest, where I could feel his heart beating, steady and true.
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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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One word," Ted replied, dead serious, "can change the whole world." There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa said to Chloe, loud enough for all of us to hear (she'd had a minibottle or two herself), "I bet he did really well on his SATs.
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You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.
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It wasn’t so much that I was positive. I just wasn’t fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.