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Sarah Dessen Quote: “Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “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.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “It’s so, so stupid what we do to ourselves because we’re afraid. It’s so stupid.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn’t waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that order. The making good and striking out part I liked. The rest would just be bonus.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “I always say that teenagers are the first to know if you’re pandering to them.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “There was something striking about a single key. It was like a question waiting to be answered, a whole missing a half. Useless on its own, needing something else to be truly defined.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can’t exist without the other. It’s sort of a hippie thing.-Wes.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “That was the nice thing about the Spot: you could hear everything, but no one could see you.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly, though, things weren’t so clear. The dark was still a mystery, something hidden, something to be scared of, but I’d come to fear the light, too. It was where everything was revealed, or seemed to be. Eyes closed, I saw only the blackness, reminding me of this one thing, the most deep of my secrets; eyes open, there was only the world that didn’t know it, bright, inescapable, and somehow, still there.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “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.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “I’ve seen what commitment leads to. Going in is the easy part. It’s the ending that sucks! -Remy.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “As I stepped out to face myself in the mirror, reaching a hand to smooth away the steam, I saw myself differently. It was as if I had grown again as I slept, but this time just to fit my own size. As if my soul had expanded, filling out the gaps of the height that had burdened me all these months. Like a balloon filling slowly with air, becoming all smooth and buoyant, I felt like I finally fit within myself, edge to edge, every crevice filled.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “I’d been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “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.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I’d been having, which I couldn’t remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “Was it really this easy, once you escaped, to just not care?”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “Being self-confident doesn’t necessarily start inside. It starts with the rest of the world and leads back to you.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “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.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn’t.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “My books are so tame!”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “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.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “Doesn’t it seem sometimes that the whole world’s uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy...”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn’t know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I’d ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “He wasn’t what I’d thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn’t what I’d thought I was, either.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “When you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn’t like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “I’m just writing what I know. I’ve never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “You can’t just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can’t plan the moment you lose your way in the first place. But standing there alone on the landing, I thought of Grandma Halley and how she’d held me close against her lap as we watched the sky together. I’d always thought I couldn’t remember, but suddenly in that moment, I closed my eyes and saw the comet, finally, brilliant and impossible, stretching above me across the sky.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren’t. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “Eventually, it wasn’t even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “You just had to know where to look.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn’t do it alone.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “He’s getting dumped. And he doesn’t even know it yet. He’s probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “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.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.”
Sarah Dessen Quote: “I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.”
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