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Life Quotes by Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen reminds us that making mistakes is a normal part of living. She points out that tiny, everyday actions add up to shape a whole life, just like words build a story. She also notes that disappointment, like change, is something we must accept.

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Too many locks, not enough keys.

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“Story of my life.”

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“For you, I wish for second chances”

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“Everyone’s life shapes them in their own unique way.”

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But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.

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Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.

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Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

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Life is an awful, ugly place not to have a best friend

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I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

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“Good be- gets bad, something lost leads to found...”

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Life isn't fair," Owen told her. "Get used to it.

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“Life seemed so much more manageable when you could write it down neatly on paper.”

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The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it.…

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“Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all.”

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

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“Life is long, just because you don't get your chance right when it comes, doesn't mean It won't come.”

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It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough…

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

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I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant,…

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That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled,…

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“Life didn't begin cleanly, and it surely never ended that way. We were blessed with whatever we had in the middle. It…

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“It's not that I believe everything happens for a reason, it's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be…

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Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour, could make all the difference. So much hanging…

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I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life…

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“For whatever reason - time, circumstance, distance- he wasn't able to give it to me himself. But he did give me Benji,…

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It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast,…

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“This life was fleeting, and I was still searching for the way I wanted to spend it that would make me happy,…

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“One week, one strong. One scared, one bold. I was beginning to understand though, that there were no such things as absolutes,…

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“Then," Kristy continued,nodding at her,"life was very short,literally.But now that I'm better,it seems so long I have to squint to see even…

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“Everything in life had its phases, and if you were smart, you learned to appreciate them all. What really mattered, though, were…

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Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value…

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“It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made…

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Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on…

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I just stood there, looking at her. My head was spinning, my mouth dry, and all I could think about was that…

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Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and…

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Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.

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“My dreams were dull as my everyday life.”

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Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

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“Disappointment is part of life. Just like change.”

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Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.

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I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever,…

“But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts…

This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn’t…

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“For me, however, it was a mix of the two, this constant push and pull. I loved it here. But I'd been in that…

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