Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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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There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.
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If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.
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Too many locks, not enough keys.
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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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It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.
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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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Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.
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At every wedding someone stays home.
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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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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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Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.
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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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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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It was just perfect, just right all at once.
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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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I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.
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Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.
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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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Everyone had a forever.
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And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.
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Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside
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As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.
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The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.