Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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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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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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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Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.
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True friendship is a promise you keep forever.
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I planned my whole future around Adam," she said now, quietly. "And now I have nothing." "No," I told her, "now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.
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That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.
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After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.
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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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…It’s not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.
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Everyone had a forever.
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Because maybe, the best of times were yet to come. You never knew.
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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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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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Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.
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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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Don't think or judge, just listen.
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She was so emotional, on the verge of tears. This was what I'd wanted to prevent with all those quick disappearances, the tangledness of farewells and all the baggage they brought with them. But now, looking at Deb, I realized what else I'd given up: knowing for sure that someone was going to miss me. What happened to goodbye, Michael in Westcott had written on my Ume.com page. I was pretty sure I knew, now. It had been packed away in a box of its own, trying to be forgotten, until I really needed it. Until now.
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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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Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.
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You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.
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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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Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.
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Call it crazy, or just chicken salad.