Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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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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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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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We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.
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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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Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.
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Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.
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I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
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But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.
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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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I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that.
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I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.
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I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.
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I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.
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"I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?"
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Let's just start and see what happens.
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It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car. "Most things are.
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Harder to get in than out, like so little else.
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Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.
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Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.
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I wasn't sure what I expected her to do or say to this. It was all new to me from that second on. But clearly, she'd been there before. It was obvious in the easy way she shrugged off her bag, letting it fall with a thump onto the sand, before sitting down beside me. She didn't pull me close for a big bonding hug or offer up some saccharine words of comfort, both of which would have sent me running for sure. Instead she gave me nothing but her company, realizing even before I did this that this, in fact, was just what I needed.
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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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And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their dry cleaning, I leaned forward and kissed Dexter, making a choice that would change everything. Maybe somewhere there was a ripple, a bit of jump, some small shift in the universe, barely noticeable. I didn’t feel it then. I felt only him kissing me back, easing me into the sunlight as I lost myself in the taste of him and felt the world go on, just as it always had, all around us.
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But it's strange, when you've always been told something is true, like the moon will come back. You need proof. And while you wait, you feel the entire balance of your world just tipping. It's crazy. But when it's over, and it does come back, that's the best, because it's all you want, everything narrows to just that. It's this great rush, like for that one second everything's okay with the world again. It's amazing.