Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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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I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.
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I always wrote about girls that went to the beach and had that summer that changed everything. So I was interested in what it would be like to live in a tourist town where everyone has these life changing experiences, but your whole life is there.
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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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Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.
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Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.
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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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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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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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The truth about forever is that it is happening right now.
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You just had to know where to look.
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…It’s not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.
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You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.
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Too many locks, not enough keys.
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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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As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.
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Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.
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I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing momentum - and I kind of pull it together at the end, but by then I think it's just all over. It's become almost a running joke among my agent and my editor - I always say that, so they don't take me seriously anymore.
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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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I was actually kind of a hot mess in high school. I did a lot of things in high school I'm not proud of. I wasn't a good student and I wasn't particularly a good daughter. I wasn't very engaged.
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Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them not to be assertive. And that, in turn, then leads to low self-esteem, which can lead to eating disorders and increased tolerance and acceptance of domestic, sexual, and substance abuse." "You get all that from a pink Onesie?" Leah said after a moment.
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Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.
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It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.
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Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.