Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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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My books are so tame!
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Let's just start and see what happens.
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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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See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which.
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Get back on that bike.
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Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
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I wanted to be somewhere else ... Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.
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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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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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Sometimes. It was a good escape. Until, you know, it wasn‟t.
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What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?
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Maybe my sister and I shared more than we thought. We were both waiting and wishing for something we couldn't completely control: I wanted to be alone, and she the total opposite. It was weird, really, to have something so contrary in common. But at least it was something.
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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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It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car. "Most things are.
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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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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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And always remember how much your crazy sister loves you.
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My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.
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He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.
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It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.
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Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be close.
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So finally, I decided that the best response — the safest — was none at all.
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If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way