Sarah Dessen Quotes

I know you guys have some sort of weird thing going on, with that game you play and everything—" "It's called a friendship.

This felt right. Not just leaving, but how I was doing it. Without regret, without second guessing. And with Wes right there, holding the door open for me as I walked out into the light.

I looked at the sweatshirt again. "'You swim' is a philosophy?" He shrugged. "Better than 'you sink', right?

He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.

You can't act like you care about someone but not let them care about you.

She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.

I'd been running for years: there was nothing scarier, to me, than to just be still with someone. And yet, there on that dark road, going home, I was.

You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said.

Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.

So finally, I decided that the best response — the safest — was none at all.

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment.

And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.

I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.

Everything always gets crazy at the end. You just have to keep going, regardless of how awful it gets. So that's what I do.

It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.

I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed.

It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

And don't change for a guy, ever," Leah added. "If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.

Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad. Macy page 199

Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be close.

Are you crazy? Flirting with Eli Stock in front of Belissa Norwood, in Belissa Norwood’s house, while eating Belissa Norwood’s cupcakes?

It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.

Just because someone's pretty, doesn't mean she's decent.

Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.

…You don’t want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests of times, each one topping the last. You know?

There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no?

You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.

…It’s not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.

Life's too short to worry about the little things. Enjoy what you have today, not what you might get tomorrow

What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?

The truth was, I wasn't sure. But I wanted to keep believing people could change, and it was certainly easier to do so when you were in the midst of it.

I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.

I trailed off and he didn't push me to finish. I was finding that I liked that.

Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.

Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in.

The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.

I am not breaking my rules,' I snapped, hating that I'd ended up on the advice-recieving end of things, jumping from Dear Remy to Confused in Cincinnati all in one summer.

It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.

Its 75 Degrees! In December!

But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.

You don't have to make things harder then they have to be just to prove a point.

Obviously it won't all run smoothly. But it's important to awknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn fromt them.

Maybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the distance across, and the way over or around it, whichever you chose in the end.

She tried to be someone people liked. She tried to be someone people disliked. But all I became was someone who didn't succeed with anything I tried to be.

I told you, everyone understands a quest.

As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich.

I seriously doubt that the Santa police do an underwear check." -Cora