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Might Quotes by Sarah Dessen

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When you need a gentle push toward confidence, Dessen’s reflections on might offer just the right mix of warmth and resolve. Her words echo the everyday moments where a small decision becomes a turning point, inviting readers to trust their own power.

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So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go…

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I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work…

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It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice, and this…

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When you've never gotten love from someone, you don't know what it might look like if it ever does appear. You look…

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You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you…

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Life's too short to worry about the little things. Enjoy what you have today, not what you might get tomorrow

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Look at it this way: I might be saying you're fat, but at least I'm not punching you in the face.' Are…

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The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you…

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Everyone laughed, and just like that, the conversation shifted, jumping to another topic. It was fast and furious, the talking, the emotions,…

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My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened…

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It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind…

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What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they…

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I think my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a…

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Because' I repeated, as a breeze blew over us, "sometimes things just happen. That aren't expected. Or on the list." "Such as?"…

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I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought…

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You ready to play?" Dave asked, bouncing it. "I don't know," I said. "Are you going to cheat?" "It's street ball!" He…

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And I felt comfort. Finally. All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me…

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So," he said as we turned onto the main road, the muffler rattling, "I've been thinking." "Yeah?" He nodded. "You really need…

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He doesn’t love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn’t know any better. When I…

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My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do;…

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But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but…

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But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected…

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Lissa lowered her voice and added, "I might not even go to school anyway. I might defer and join the Peace Corps…

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I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed…

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Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

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“if i were a book i would be so open”

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Harder to get in than out, like so little else.

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“At times, I found myself questioning his very existence, even though I knew I had, in fact, spotted him, with my own eyes.”

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You don't have to say it out loud. I already know why you like me.' 'You do, huh?' 'Yep.' He wrapped his arms around…

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No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain…

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When you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well.

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the truth about forever is that it is happening right now

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I jammed my hand in my jacket pocket, bracing myself fo the next hit, and fel something. Something grainy and samll, sticking to the…

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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,…

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“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…

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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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call it chicken salad

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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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I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.

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