Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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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People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less
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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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I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter how strong or weak I was, she was a part of me, as crucial as my own heart. I would never be strong enough, in all my life, to do without her.
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In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.
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Why does she have wings?' So she can fly.
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People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.
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If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way
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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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But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.” “You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.
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I am not breaking my rules,' I snapped, hating that I'd ended up on the advice-recieving end of things, jumping from Dear Remy to Confused in Cincinnati all in one summer.
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There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
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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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Call it crazy, or just chicken salad.
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Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.
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Love can make up for a lot.
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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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Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.
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Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.
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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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And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.
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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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The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry for him already. This was a screwed-up place he'd just come into. But he didn't have to know that. Not yet, anyway. There in that room, where it was hot and cramped, the world probably still seemed small enough to manage.
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Macon: “It’s true. And if that doesn’t work, use the Jedi Mind Trick. But only if you really have to.” Halley: “The what?” Macon: “The Jedi Mind Trick.” He looked at me. “Didn’t you ever see Star Wars?