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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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Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.
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Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.
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Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them not to be assertive. And that, in turn, then leads to low self-esteem, which can lead to eating disorders and increased tolerance and acceptance of domestic, sexual, and substance abuse." "You get all that from a pink Onesie?" Leah said after a moment.
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That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.
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It was just perfect, just right all at once.
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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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I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.
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Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
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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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But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.
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What were you two talking about?" she whispered as Wes pulls the door shut. Nothing," I said. "Running." You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.
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We sat there, not talking, for a few minutes. He ate the Moon Pie; only skinny people can scarf down junk food like that. Finally, I said, "Norman?" "Yeah?" "Are you ever going to show me the painting?" "Man," he said. "You are, like, so impatient." "I am not," I said. "I've been waiting forever." "Okay, okay." He stood up and went over to the corner, picking up the painting and bringing it over to rest against the bright pink belly of one of the mannequins. Then, he handed me a bandana. "Tie that on.
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You just had to know where to look.
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That was the nice thing about the Spot: you could hear everything, but no one could see you.
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Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.
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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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Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be close.
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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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No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.
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Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.
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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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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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In midair, dangling lost above the world.
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