Sarah Dessen Quotes
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You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.
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Life isn't fair," Owen told her. "Get used to it.
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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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Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside
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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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It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.
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When someone starts to change, and it’s obvious, it's sort of natural to wonder why. Right?
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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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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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You just had to know where to look.
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I wasn't sure what I expected her to do or say to this. It was all new to me from that second on. But clearly, she'd been there before. It was obvious in the easy way she shrugged off her bag, letting it fall with a thump onto the sand, before sitting down beside me. She didn't pull me close for a big bonding hug or offer up some saccharine words of comfort, both of which would have sent me running for sure. Instead she gave me nothing but her company, realizing even before I did this that this, in fact, was just what I needed.
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Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.
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The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.
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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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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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There comes a point when things are undeniable and can't be hidden any longer. Even from yourself.
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I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.
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You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.
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I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen...that's huge. It awes me.
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The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.
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I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
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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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We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.
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The thing is I'm a great believer in the perfect moment. They don't come around that often.