Sarah Dessen Quotes - Page 3

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

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.

The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

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?

Too many locks, not enough keys.

It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away.
I understood those mermaids.I didn't care if they sang to me.All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again,pulling me upward into light,to drown.

But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.

Macy: “In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.”
Wes: “How do you win?” he asked
Macy: “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.

the unknown wasn’t always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be riskier, because the words they say and the things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.

But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.

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

Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

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.

Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.