Sarah Dessen Quotes
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I paused, only just now realizing that the subject was hitting a little close to home. "You know, getting hurt. Putting herself out there, opening up to someone." Yeah," he said adding some cheese straws to the cart, "but risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't." I picked up a box of cheese straws, examining it. "Yeah," I said. "But it's not all about chance, either.
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I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.
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but you could also look at it the other way. Like you’re saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.
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Conciseness is underrated
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It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.
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But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge
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I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between.
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One open, one closed. It was no wonder that the first image that came to mind when I thought of either of my sisters was a door. With Kirsten, it was the front one to our house, through which she was always coming in or out, usually in mid-sentence, a gaggle of friends trailing behind her. Whitney’s was the one to her bedroom, which she preferred to keep shut between her and the rest of us, always.
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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.
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Just because someone's pretty, doesn't mean she's decent.
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There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no?
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It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.
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Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.
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It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.
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I had to wonder whether it was possible that this wasn’t already decided for me, and if maybe, just maybe, this was my one last chance to try and prove it. There was no way to know. There never is. But I reached out and took it anyway.
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It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.
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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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He just stood there, looking at me, as if I had actually changed before his eyes. But this was the girl I'd been all along. I'd just hidden her well.
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Sometimes. It was a good escape. Until, you know, it wasn‟t.
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Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.
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I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.
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Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.
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It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.
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'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'