Sarah Dessen Quotes
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But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.
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It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.
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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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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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I seriously doubt that the Santa police do an underwear check." -Cora
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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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And always remember how much your crazy sister loves you.
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Let's just start and see what happens.
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I wanted to be somewhere else ... Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.
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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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Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.
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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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Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.
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Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie of all.
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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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My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones... you might as well hold on to them. You know?
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If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood.
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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 wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind of stories to tell the next time I got together with my old friends. Jason was smart, good-looking, and seriously on the rebound after his girlfriend at Jackson dumped him for, in his words, 'a juvenile delinquent welder with a tattoo'.
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But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.
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I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.
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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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Hollis " I said "you're messing with me right now aren't you You're in Paris or somewhere and just-" "What " he replied. "No This is the real deal. Here I'll prove it." There was a muffled noise followed by some static. Then I heard my mother recite at a distance in her most droll flat tone "Yes. It is true. Your brother is in love and in my kitchen.