Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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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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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You want me to give her a key?" the guy asked. "I want you to give her a possibility," she told him, looking at my necklace again. "And that's what a key represents. An open door, a chance. You know?
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Call it crazy, or just chicken salad.
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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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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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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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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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Maybe I'd just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing
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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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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.
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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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There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
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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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It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.
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I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.
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It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.
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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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But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side
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Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.
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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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Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?
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There's this other half of him I don't know of, it's like he is trying to keep it a secret... if he would just let me inside so I can help.
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Too many locks, not enough keys.