Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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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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.
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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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There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.
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'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
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And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.
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Very quietly, I heard a voice in my ear.It said, in a weird, cheesy, right-out-of-one-of-my-mother's-novels way, "Ah. Wemeet again." I turned my head, just slightly, and right there, practically on top of me, was theguy from the car dealership. He was wearing a red Mountain Fresh Detergent T-shirt - not just fresh: mountain fresh! - it proclaimed, and was smiling at me. "Oh,God," I said. "No, it's Dexter.
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It's so, so stupid what we do to ourselves because we're afraid. It's so stupid.
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Its been a long night" "aren't they all?
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I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.
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Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.
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It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice, and this was it, where she felt safe, in a world she could, for the most part, control.
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I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.
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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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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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Don't think or judge, just listen.
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I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.
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But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.
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What happened to goodbye?
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With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.
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It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.
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It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.
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Life isn't fair," Owen told her. "Get used to it.
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I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m.