Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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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She was so emotional, on the verge of tears. This was what I'd wanted to prevent with all those quick disappearances, the tangledness of farewells and all the baggage they brought with them. But now, looking at Deb, I realized what else I'd given up: knowing for sure that someone was going to miss me. What happened to goodbye, Michael in Westcott had written on my Ume.com page. I was pretty sure I knew, now. It had been packed away in a box of its own, trying to be forgotten, until I really needed it. Until now.
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Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.
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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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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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Even if you do make tons of new friends,” I told him, “try not to forget where you came from, okay?
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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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Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.
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True friendship is a promise you keep forever.
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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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That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.
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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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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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I don't think anyone would think that an ellipsis represents doubt or anything. I think it's more, you know, hinting at the future. What lies ahead.
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You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.
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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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Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.
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"So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I guess." "I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways." "How'd you mean it, then?" "I just...I don't always say what I feel." "Why not?" "Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. "Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."
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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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There's this other half of him I don't know of, it's like he is trying to keep it a secret... if he would just let me inside so I can help.
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You just had to know where to look.
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Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.
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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.