Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Really? Screaming?” He shrugged. “It wasn’t that bad. But there were definitely some freak-outs on both sides. Though, to be honest, the silence was worse.” “Worse than screaming?” I said. “Much,” he said, nodding. “I mean, at least with an argument, you know what’s happening. Or have some idea. Silence is… it could be anything. It’s just –” “So freaking loud,” I finished for him. He pointed at me. “Exactly.
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There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.
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You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.
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She took the sun when it came and the rain the same way.
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That's the thing about someone who rarely gets upset: when they do, you notice.
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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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It is kind of hard to hold a lot in. But for me… it’s sometimes even harder to let it out.
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Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.
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From up above, in a plane passing over, you’d just see one little light in all this dark, with no idea of the lives that were being lived within it, and in the house beside, and beside that one. So much happening in the world, night and day, hour by hour. It was no wonder we were meant to sleep, if only to check out of it for a little while.
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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 just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?"
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Call it crazy, or just chicken salad.
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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.
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It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.
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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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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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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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Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.
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And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.
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Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.
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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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You just had to know where to look.
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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.
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Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.