Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.
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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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You just had to know where to look.
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But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.
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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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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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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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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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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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True friendship is a promise you keep forever.
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If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way
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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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What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?
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The truth about forever is that it is happening right now.
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Love can make up for a lot.
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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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Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I can, but you reach a point as the author where you have lost all perspective.
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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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Don't think or judge, just listen.
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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?