All Sarah Dessen Quotes
- I eased back on my elbows, tilting my head back to look up at the sky, which was pinkish, streaked with red. This was the… Always Waiting
- The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry for him already.… Cramped
- But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn't succeed. That's what drove me, all those nights… All
- It passed, though. That was the bad thing. It always passed. Always Passed
- In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at me in the… Almost Happy
- n the dark everyone felt the same: the edges blurred. When I think of myself then, what I was like two years ago, I feel… Able
- I didn't trot my pain out to show around. I kept it better hidden than anyone. I did. Anyone
- It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Day
- Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting. Adjusting
- Once, I was easy. Now, I was choosy. See? Big difference. Big
- One word," Ted replied, dead serious, "can change the whole world." There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa said to Chloe,… All
- It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that order. The making… Any
- As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say. Beating
- I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I… Another Shade
- As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement. Age
- I planned my whole future around Adam," she said now, quietly. "And now I have nothing." "No," I told her, "now you just don't have… Adam
- So," she went on, "it got me thinking about what cost beauty. Or for that matter, what cost anything? Would you trade love for beauty?… Beautiful
- I should have told you from the start. I will let you down. Down
- I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented. Feeling
- Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school. Adulthood
- Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did. Coming
- But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over. Early
- But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life.… All
- Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me. And… Away Still
- Maybe, you just misplaced it, you know? It's been there. But you just haven't been looking in the right spot. Because lost means forever, it's… Around Somewhere