Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.
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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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We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.
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Listen,"Kristy said," the truth is,nothing is guranteed. You know better than anybody." She looked at me hard,making sure I knew what she meant.I did."So don't be afraid.Be alive.
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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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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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Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?
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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 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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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 was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.
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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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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 would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.
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All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.
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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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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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The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.
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I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.
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Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.
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It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.
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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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"Which is completely out-of-line behavior. Then you are wholly within your rights to stomp on their foot." "No," Delia said, over her shoulder. "Actually, you're not. Just excuse yourself as politely as possible, and get out of arm's reach." Kristy looked at me, shaking her head. "Stomp them." she said, under her breath. "Really."
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Why does she have wings?' So she can fly.