Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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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The thing is I'm a great believer in the perfect moment. They don't come around that often.
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People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.
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I don't know," I said. "Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even bother? What's the point really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do." He moved down to start bagging while I just stood there, letting this sink in. Just something you have to do. No excuse or rationale necessary. I kind of like that.
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All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.
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And guys don't get attached, guys don't give themselves over completely, and guys lie. That's why they should be handled with great trepidation, not trusted, and held at arm's length whenever possible.
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Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.
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But as was so often the case, it was the one person missing who you thought about more than the ones who were right in front of you.
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Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in.
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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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He always did the leaving. But not this time. She kept walking, and did not look back.
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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'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 health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.
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Told you. Everything sounds better in the car wash.
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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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What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they came close, as if you might just break free of whatever was holding you and throw yourself at them with enough force to easily overwhelm you both.
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Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside
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What happened to goodbye?
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We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.
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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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There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.
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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 don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?" "Like I said," he said as I unlocked the car, "I'm not so sure that you should go by my example." "Why not?" "Because I have my regrets," he said. "Also, I'm a guy. And guys do different stuff." "Like ride bikes?" I said. "No," he replied. "Like have food fights. And break stuff. And set off firecrackers on people's front porches. And..." "Girls can't set off firecrackers on people's front porches?" "They can," he said... "But they're smart enough not to. That's the difference."