Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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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"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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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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Get back on that bike.
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Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside
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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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But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it. -Eli
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What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.
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Love can make up for a lot.
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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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So finally, I decided that the best response — the safest — was none at all.
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Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.
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Macon: “It’s true. And if that doesn’t work, use the Jedi Mind Trick. But only if you really have to.” Halley: “The what?” Macon: “The Jedi Mind Trick.” He looked at me. “Didn’t you ever see Star Wars?
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Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible
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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 when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.
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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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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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At every wedding someone stays home.
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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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Sorry!' Dave's friend yelled when he saw me. 'That was my-' But i wasn't listening as,instead,i took every bit of the anger and stress of the last few minutes and days put it behind the ball, throwing it overhead at the basket as hard as i could. It went flying, hitting the backboard and banging through the netless hoop at full speed before shooting back out and nailing Dave Wade squarely on the forehead. And just like that, he was down.
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What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?
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Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.
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There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.