Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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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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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Because maybe, the best of times were yet to come. You never knew.
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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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Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were in the same state, only a few towns over.
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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 many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge.
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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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Call it crazy, or just chicken salad.
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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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There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
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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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Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.
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…It’s not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.
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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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Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.
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That's the thing about someone who rarely gets upset: when they do, you notice.
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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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I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.
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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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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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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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I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right?
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Maybe I'd just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing