All Sarah Dessen Quotes
- Once, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house in one of our splintery Adirondack chairs… Absence
- When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. When I didn't, he moved in closer,… Arms
- During the long stretches of quiet two-lane highway, with the sun setting in the distance, it was somehow easier to say things aloud, and regardless… Aloud
- Was it really this easy, once you escaped, to just not care? Care
- But it was important to simply be sought, even if you didn‟t ever want to be found. Didn
- but accepting help doesn‟t have to mean giving up control. Accepting
- I just stood there, looking at her. My head was spinning, my mouth dry, and all I could think about was that I wanted to… All
- Sure, there was no guarantee any of these things would actually happen as he envisioned. But maybe that wasn‟t the point.It was the planning that… Actually Happen
- There was something striking about a single key. It was like a question waiting to be answered, a whole missing a half. Useless on its… Answered
- Sometimes. It was a good escape. Until, you know, it wasn‟t. Escape
- You just had to know where to look. Funny
- There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all. All
- Maybe I'd just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing Better
- But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep… Afraid
- If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying. Didn
- How do you even begin to return to someone, much less convince them to do the same for you? I had no idea. More than… Answer
- Even if you do make tons of new friends,” I told him, “try not to forget where you came from, okay? Came
- I hoped this was true. Even if it wasn‟t, all I could do was hand over what I could, with the hope of something in… All
- If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would ever come looking. Come Looking
- closed my eyes and listened. It was like music I'd heard all my life, even more than "This Lullaby." All those keystrokes, all those letters,… All
- Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in. Believe
- So what do you wear to dump somebody?" she asked me, twirling a lock of hair around one finger. "Black, for mourning? Or something cheerful… Around One
- He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he… Cheeseburger
- Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to… Admit
- That was the nice thing about the Spot: you could hear everything, but no one could see you. Hear