Sarah Dessen Quotes
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All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.
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Hey, think fast!' I just looked at Fave as he chucked the basketball at me with possibly the worst overhand throw I'd ever seen. It landed to my far right, then bounced past me, banging against my dad's truck. 'Do you have a vision problem of something?' I asked him. 'Just keeping you on your toes,' he replied
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What were you two talking about?" she whispered as Wes pulls the door shut. Nothing," I said. "Running." You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.
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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.
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Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.
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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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I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
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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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The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.
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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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And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.
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But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.
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No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.
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I knew that it wouldn’t last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.
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Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble
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Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again.
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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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Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.
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Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.
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The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.
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What happened to goodbye?
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Maybe marriage, like life, is'nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things — like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day — that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond.
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“Well," Isaid finally, knowing he was waiting, “you make me laugh.” He nodded. “And?” “You're pretty good-looking." ""Pretty good-looking? I called you beautiful." "You want to be beautiful?" I asked him. "Are you saying I'm not?"
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There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.