Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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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I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign.
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There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?
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But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn't succeed. That's what drove me, all those nights studying. The fact that so many figured I couldn't do it.
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Don't think or judge, just listen.
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Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it was why she'd pretty much talked nonstop since I'd approached her and asked for a ride. I'd barely had time to explain the situation before she had launched into a dozen stories to illustrate the point that Things Happened But People Were Okay in the End.
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Why does she have wings?' So she can fly.
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And so really, you have given me no choice but to take you shopping by force.” She sighed, then reached up, dropping her sunglasses down from their perch on her head to cover her eyes. “Do you even realize how happy the average teenage girl would be in your shoes? I have a credit card. We’re at the mall. I want to buy you things. It’s like adolescent nirvana.” - Cora
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True friendship is a promise you keep forever.
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Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.
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If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way
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Sometimes. It was a good escape. Until, you know, it wasn‟t.
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What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.
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Told you. Everything sounds better in the car wash.
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And always remember how much your crazy sister loves you.
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People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less
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Let's just start and see what happens.
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So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.
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Very quietly, I heard a voice in my ear.It said, in a weird, cheesy, right-out-of-one-of-my-mother's-novels way, "Ah. Wemeet again." I turned my head, just slightly, and right there, practically on top of me, was theguy from the car dealership. He was wearing a red Mountain Fresh Detergent T-shirt - not just fresh: mountain fresh! - it proclaimed, and was smiling at me. "Oh,God," I said. "No, it's Dexter.
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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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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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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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Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were in the same state, only a few towns over.
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I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.