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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Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.
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There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?
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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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She took the sun when it came and the rain the same way.
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I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.
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But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it. -Eli
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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 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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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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What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?
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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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What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.
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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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Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie
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Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.
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Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.
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We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.
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If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.
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After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.
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Love can make up for a lot.
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I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I remember sitting at graduation with all these classmates getting nostalgic and emotional already and all I could think was, "Get me out of here. I never want to see you people again." So it's ironic that I spend half my day putting myself back there by choice [while writing].
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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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If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.