Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Life isn't fair," Owen told her. "Get used to it.
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Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be close.
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And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice. It was my mother.
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But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.
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The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.
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If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would ever come looking.
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Just because someone's pretty, doesn't mean she's decent.
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A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.
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You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.
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The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.
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It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car. "Most things are.
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I know you guys have some sort of weird thing going on, with that game you play and everything—" "It's called a friendship.
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I've seen what commitment leads to. Going in is the easy part. It's the ending that sucks! -Remy
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I got back in my car, starting the engine, then drove off. It wasn't until I pulled onto the highway that it all really sunk it, how temporary our friendship had been. We'd been on our breaks, after all, but it wasn't our relationships that were on pause: it was us. Now we were both in motion again, moving ahead. So what if there were questions left unanswered. Life went on. We knew that better than anyone.
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Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in.
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You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try
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I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.
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You just walk over there and into the office and say, 'Hey, be my prom date,'" he said. "It's that simple.
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Because' I repeated, as a breeze blew over us, "sometimes things just happen. That aren't expected. Or on the list." "Such as?" he asked "I don't know," I said, frustrated. "That's the point. It would be out of the blue, taking us by surprise. Something we might not be prepared for." "But we will be prepared," he said, confused. "We'll have the list.
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I knew that it wouldn’t last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.
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I have boobs!" Chloe said again, a bit too loudly— she'd already had a couple of mini bottles at the Spot. "My boobs are great, goddammit. You know that? They're fantastic! My boobs are amazing.
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No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood. If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right.
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It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.
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You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.