Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Life isn't fair," Owen told her. "Get used to it.
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The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.
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But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.
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What happened to goodbye?
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“In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.” “How do you win?” he asked. “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.
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Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation to the end. But that was the thing about taking help and giving it, or so I was learning; there was no such thing as really getting even. Instead, this connection, once opened, remained ongoing over time.
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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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And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.
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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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True friendship is a promise you keep forever.
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I just stood there, looking at her. My head was spinning, my mouth dry, and all I could think about was that I wanted to go someplace safe, someplace I could be alone and okay, and that this was impossible. My old life had changed and my new one was still in progress, altering by the second. There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?
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I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
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I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed.
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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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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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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.
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I've seen what commitment leads to. Going in is the easy part. It's the ending that sucks! -Remy
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Don't think or judge, just listen.
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I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.
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Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad. Macy page 199