Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Let's just start and see what happens.
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Sometimes. It was a good escape. Until, you know, it wasn‟t.
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But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.
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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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Life isn't fair," Owen told her. "Get used to it.
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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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All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.
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But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.
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Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.
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I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.
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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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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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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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Harder to get in than out, like so little else.
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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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The end of a wedding reception is always so depressing. And only the bride and groom are spared, jetting off into the sunset while the rest of us wake up the next morning to just another day.
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It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.
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I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it
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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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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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The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.
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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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We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.
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You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one.