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Away Quotes by Sarah Dessen
- I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.
- I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him…
- Still, there was also was something reassuring about working for Commercial, almost hopeful. Like things that were lost could be found again. As we drove…
- At the same time, though, I was beginning to wonder if this was just how it was supposed to be for me, like perhaps I…
- If you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's…
- Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there.…
- Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at…
- Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out…
- If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the…
- And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like…
- It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially…
- As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on my way. Everyone…
- 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…
- But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I…
- But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.
- Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make…
- I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of…
- If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make…
- And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the…
- I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and…
- 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,…
- 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…
- I drove off, with my friends watching me go, all of them grouped on Lissa's hood. As I pulled onto the road, I glanced into…
- She was so emotional, on the verge of tears. This was what I'd wanted to prevent with all those quick disappearances, the tangledness of farewells…
- As I stepped out to face myself in the mirror, reaching a hand to smooth away the steam, I saw myself differently. It was as…
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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius