Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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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My books are so tame!
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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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Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.
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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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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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Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.
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Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.
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Get back on that bike.
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Call it crazy, or just chicken salad.
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And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.
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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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But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it. -Eli
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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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In midair, dangling lost above the world.
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But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.
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If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way
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Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.
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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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What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a project, but a prize. you know?
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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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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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Love can make up for a lot.
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I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.