Stills Quotes by Sarah Dessen

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be…

— Sarah Dessen

I've given lots of people chances. But there's only so much faith you can have in people.

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Like so many before them, they didn't care that my dad was only the messenger. They still wanted to shoot him.

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Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.

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I knew that it wouldn’t last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell…

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I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m.

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I'd been running for years: there was nothing scarier, to me, than to just be still with someone. And yet, there on…

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but you could also look at it the other way. Like you’re saying no matter how bad things are for you, I…

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Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you…

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Still, there was also was something reassuring about working for Commercial, almost hopeful. Like things that were lost could be found again.…

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Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still…

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She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this…

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I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on.…

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It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I…

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You couldn't see the key around my neck: it hung too low under both collars. But if I leaned in close, I…

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I've given lots of people chances," she said suddenly, as if Marion was still in the room to hear us. "But there's…

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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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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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She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they…

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You know, when you think about it, that’s kind of a weird thing. I mean it’s meant to be sympathetic, right? But…

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Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings, but now she was a vegan princess, living off of beans. She'd given…

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

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I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the…

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Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people…

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If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked…

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It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.

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When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart,…

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No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay…

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So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But…

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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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Maybe, you just misplaced it, you know? It's been there. But you just haven't been looking in the right spot. Because lost…

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Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together,…

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She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project,…

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That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly, though, things…

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The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry…

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You're wrong," I told her. "I lost that faith a long time ago." She looked at me as I said this, an…

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Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me.…

— Sarah Dessen