Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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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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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Conciseness is underrated
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So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.
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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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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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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 hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.
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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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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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Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.
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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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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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Sometimes. It was a good escape. Until, you know, it wasn‟t.
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The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.
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Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.
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It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.
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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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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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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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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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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's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.