Sarah Dessen Quotes
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It wasn’t so much that I was positive. I just wasn’t fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.
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Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.
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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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The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.
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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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You just had to know where to look.
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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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The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.
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Why does she have wings?' So she can fly.
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There comes a point when things are undeniable and can't be hidden any longer. Even from yourself.
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She tried to be someone people liked. She tried to be someone people disliked. But all I became was someone who didn't succeed with anything I tried to be.
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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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Harder to get in than out, like so little else.
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Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him, here, now. And yet it didn’t, at all. That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn’t so much once you passed a certain hour. It was like the dark just evened it all out somehow.
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People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.
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No, no, no to Tallyho.
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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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It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.
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You know, I think I knew you for about three weeks before I ever really saw you smile. And then one day, Morgan said something and you laughed, and I remember thinking it was really cool because it meant something. You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one.
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And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice. It was my mother.
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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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Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.
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I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.
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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.