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Instead Quotes by Sarah Dessen
- So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together,…
- My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well. These months…
- instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves,…
- This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually…
- And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge…
- 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. It's like I'm…
- He was not my boyfriend. On the other hand, he wasn't just a friend either. Instead, our relationship was elastic, stretching between those two extremes…
- 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…
- I wasn't sure what I expected her to do or say to this. It was all new to me from that second on. But clearly,…
- 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 things that I…
- I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish…
- The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down…
- It’s never something huge that changes the everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you’re busy focusing…
- As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.
- Sorry!' Dave's friend yelled when he saw me. 'That was my-' But i wasn't listening as,instead,i took every bit of the anger and stress of…
- I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in…
- It was like reaching for someone's hand, then missing their fingers, or even their arm, and hitting their shoulder instead. But no matter. You hang…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of…
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- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
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- Smarmy little prig,†Will snarled, leaning father forward, as if he longed to reach through the magical portal and strangle Gabriel. “When… — Cassandra Clare
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer