All Sarah Dessen Quotes
- A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all. All
- And the rest is history,' I said. Nah.' He shook his head. 'The rest is now. Funny
- Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard. Damned
- There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised? Depend
- You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take. The night before, I'd offered up my hand. Now, if I held on,… Give
- Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation… Almost Hard
- Conciseness is underrated Conciseness
- We both know the limits of this relationship. It's understood. And as long as we're both comfortablewith that, nobody get's hurt. It's basic.' ~Oliva, pg… Basic
- The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life. Continued
- She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition.… Across
- As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to leave. We were… Concerned
- When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features… All
- I've given lots of people chances," she said suddenly, as if Marion was still in the room to hear us. "But there's only so much… Chance
- I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept… Arm
- Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again. Call
- And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she was wrong.… Belong
- You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop. Drop
- You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the… Across
- I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter… All
- How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect. All
- He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no… Able
- This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign… Agreed
- The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen. Day
- It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not… Good
- But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere. Everywhere