Dessen Quotes
Dessen Quote of the day
There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.
If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.
Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.
...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.
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.
The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.
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.
Shit, " Delia said. "I mean, shoot. No, actually, I mean shit. I really 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.
That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are