Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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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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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He always did the leaving. But not this time. She kept walking, and did not look back.
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You just had to know where to look.
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When you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well.
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The truth about forever is that it is happening right now.
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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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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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…It’s not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.
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She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.
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The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote
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Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.
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Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.
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It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.