Sarah Dessen Quotes
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I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.
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In midair, dangling lost above the world.
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But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.
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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 had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.
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If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. but being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.
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There was only so much space between us, not even a real distance if measured in miles or feet or even inches, all the things that told you how far you'd come or had left to go. But it was a big space, if only for me. And as I moved forward to him covering it, he waited there on the other side. It was only the last little bit I has to go, but in the end, I knew it would be all I would truly remember. So as I kissed him, bringing this summer and everything else full circle, I let myself fall, and was not scared of the ground I knew would rise up to meet me.
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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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If you were dead," Owen told her, "you'd have bigger problems than what you were wearing.
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I am not breaking my rules,' I snapped, hating that I'd ended up on the advice-recieving end of things, jumping from Dear Remy to Confused in Cincinnati all in one summer.
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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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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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We sat there, not talking, for a few minutes. He ate the Moon Pie; only skinny people can scarf down junk food like that. Finally, I said, "Norman?" "Yeah?" "Are you ever going to show me the painting?" "Man," he said. "You are, like, so impatient." "I am not," I said. "I've been waiting forever." "Okay, okay." He stood up and went over to the corner, picking up the painting and bringing it over to rest against the bright pink belly of one of the mannequins. Then, he handed me a bandana. "Tie that on.
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This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.
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A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.
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I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so distracted - -by having to work other jobs, or what other people have to say about your writing - -but the one thing that really matters is that you just keep going, especially when you're working on a novel. It's so easy to get discouraged and give up.
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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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I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
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'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
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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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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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I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
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I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.