Sarah Dessen Quotes
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There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
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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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I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.
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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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You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.
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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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But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side
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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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The thing is I'm a great believer in the perfect moment. They don't come around that often.
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I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.
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Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.
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That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened - good, bad, or anywhere in between - it was always, if nothing else, all your own.
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If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.
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It's not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.
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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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Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.
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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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The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.
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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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The truth about forever is that it is happening right now.
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But she wouldn't. I knew that already. My mother and I had an understanding: we worked together to be as much in control of our shared world as possible. I was suposed to be her other half, carrying my share of the weight. In the last few weeks, I'd tried to shed it, and doing so sent everything off kilter. So of course she would pull me tighter, keeping me in my place, because doing so meant she would always be sure, somehow, of her own.
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That's the thing about someone who rarely gets upset: when they do, you notice.
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Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together? Dexter: You're here, aren't you?
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It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.