Sarah Dessen Quotes
It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.
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.
You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really, " he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.
It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think, ' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.
The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.
Rogerson, " I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?""In the open sea, " he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.
Your mother won a special reward, " she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.
Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative.""Which is?""Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?
Macy: “In Truth, ” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.”Wes: “How do you win?” he askedMacy: “That, ” I said, “is such a boy question.
But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.
Fine, " he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.
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.
But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.
If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.
I felt tears prick my eyes as I looked down at the model again, looking at that girl and boy on the curb. Forever in that place, together.
I don't think anybody ever really knows what's going to happen, " he said. "We're all just out here hoping for the best.
Oh for God's sake, ' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with.
Nah, " I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.""What?""He'll understand.
Shit, " Delia said. "I mean, shoot. No, actually, I mean shit. I really do.
Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.-Maggie
You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.
I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.
Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.
The point, ' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.
We were there, together, and in the next room I could hear that monitor beeping. Keeping track of another heart’s beat and giving enduring, solid proof of our own.
When's something difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder- if not impossible- to lose.
Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?"He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.
What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back.
The important thing to remember, ... is that you are a human being and worthy of respect.
What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered when other people pointed them out? I was almost envious.
Life is full of screwups, " he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.
Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all.
Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand.
I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic.
Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone.
The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.
... Everything he feels, he feels strongly. Too strongly, sometimes. I think he freaks people out.
But I knew what it said. That I could be imperfect, but only so much. Human, but only within limits. And honest, to her or to myself, never.
What you do in your dreams is never your choice. But it made me happy anyway.
He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I’d won a prize, because he was so sparing with them.
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.