Sarah Dessen, Lock And Key Quotes
The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.
Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.
It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.
There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.
Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.
Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.
What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.
Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.
The point, ' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.
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.
But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.
But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.”“You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.