Sarah Dessen Quotes - Page 7

Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship.

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.
-Maggie

As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship.

We were there, together, and in the next room I could hear that monitor beeping. Keeping track of another heart’s beat and giving enduring, solid proof of our own.

You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.

He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I’d won a prize, because he was so sparing with them.

Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

Because that is what happens when you try to run from the past. It doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left except that which leads through it.

...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.

Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?"

"In the open sea," he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.

Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.”
“You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.