Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Because maybe, the best of times were yet to come. You never 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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Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.
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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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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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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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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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Call it crazy, or just chicken salad.
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Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.
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Don't think or judge, just listen.
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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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The truth about forever is that it is happening right now.
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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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Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.
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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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Maybe I'd just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing
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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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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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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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That's the thing about someone who rarely gets upset: when they do, you notice.
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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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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.