Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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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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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Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.
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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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Don't think or judge, just listen.
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There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
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The truth about forever is that it is happening right now.
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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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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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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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Call it crazy, or just chicken salad.
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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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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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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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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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…It’s not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.
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Maybe I'd just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing
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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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Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?
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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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Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.
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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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You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.