Top 500 Sarah Dessen Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood. If you didn’t, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right.”

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202. “I was so scared about being discovered, but nobody came. Nobody heard. In my own ears, though, my sobs sounded primal and scary, like something I would have turned off if I’d been able to.”

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203. “You’re not a sucker. You’re just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.”

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204. “You can never be sure of anyone until you’re close enough to see them clearly.”

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205. “It’s funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you’d think.”

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206. “You stop believing in wishes when the only one you want to make can never come true.”

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207. “During this time we’ve been apart, it’s you I’ve thought of when I’m at my weakest, and you who have pulled me through.”

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208. “I feel like Twitter was tailor-made for me, because I can do short spurts all day long. I loved my blog, but doing daily, then thrice weekly entries was really time consuming. 140 characters is perfect.”

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209. “It’s true. It’s like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it’s so easy. it’s like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.”

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210. “So maybe it wasn’t the fairy tale. But those stories weren’t real anyway. Mine were.”

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211. “After loving someone you couldn’t depend on, you realize how important it is to trust someone will do what they say. It’s such a simple thing, not to promise what you can’t or won’t deliver. But my mom had done that all the time.”

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212. “Looking at her, I thought again how beautiful she was – even in jeans and a T-shirt, no makeup, she was breathtaking. So much so that it was hard to believe she could ever have looked at herself and seen anything else.”

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213. “Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.”

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214. “In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.”

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215. “We didn’t talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn’t.”

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216. “In midair, dangling lost above the world.”

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217. “Like life isn’t complicated enough. You should at least be able to follow the signs.”

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218. “I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn’t always the greatest thing to fear. 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.”

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219. “There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee.”

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220. “It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.”

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221. “Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.”

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222. “Wes wants to be with Macy. And Macy, whether she’ll admit it or not, wants to be with Wes. And yet they’re not together, which is not only unjust, but when you think about it, tragical!”

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223. “During the long stretches of quiet two-lane highway, with the sun setting in the distance, it was somehow easier to say things aloud, and regardless of what was said, we just kept moving toward that horizon.”

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224. “It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn’t bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.”

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225. “We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone’s eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves.”

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226. “Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. “It’s a start,” I said.”

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227. “It wasn’t about being happy or unhappy. I just didn’t want to be me anymore.”

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228. “After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.”

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229. “I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you’d think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous...”

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230. “So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.”

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231. “I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he’d been all I’d had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.”

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232. “As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say.”

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233. “That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.”

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234. “Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.”

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235. “You punched him by accident.”

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236. “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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237. “The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.”

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238. “It’s still a memory worth having, even if it’s not exactly what you imagined.”

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239. “You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core.”

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240. “Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.”

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241. “At every wedding someone stays home.”

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242. “The end of a wedding reception is always so depressing. And only the bride and groom are spared, jetting off into the sunset while the rest of us wake up the next morning to just another day.”

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243. “I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.”

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244. “After the group vet appointment – during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room – we went back to Sabrina’s and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.”

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245. “This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.”

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246. “I mean, it’s impossible to fake anything if you’ve already seen the other person in a way they’d never choose for you to. You can’t go back from that.”

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247. “I don’t talk about my books while I’m writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel’s about until it’s done.”

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248. “Donneven, Bettaquit and Mmmhmmmm.”

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249. “People will tell you what they want you to know.”

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250. “There’s a real bonding in someone beating the crap out of you. – Rolly.”

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