Sarah Dessen Quotes
"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)
"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."
Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)
"Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you."
Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)
"Don't think or judge, just listen."
Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
"No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...
The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has
to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot."
Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)
"I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed. "
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"It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never
know for sure, so you'd better make every second count."
Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)
"There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart."
Sarah Dessen
"Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times,
pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there."
Sarah Dessen
"Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment,
or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment."
Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
"Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself."
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"Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesnt catch up, it overtakes
blotting out the future."
Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesnt catch up, it overtakes
blotting out the future."
Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
"There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying."
Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
"What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless.
It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. We had many families over time. Our family of origin, the family we created,
and the groups you moved through while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be.
You can't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build your world from it."
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"Hate Spinnerbait!"
Sarah Dessen
"All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below."
Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
"I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least
know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.
"Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?"
I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him."
Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)
"I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered."
Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
"What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they came close, as if you might just break
free of whatever was holding you and throw yourself at them with enough force to easily overwhelm you both."
Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)
"You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs."
Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)
"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, edge to edge, could
they even begin to tell the whole story."
Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
"I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more."
Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
"No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand
the future. It's all linked together."
Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
"There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together."
Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
"I knew that there were no guarantees. No way of knowing what came next for me, or him, or anybody. Some things don't last forever, but some things do.
Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down the corners and peering in close,
hoping you still recognize the person you see there."
Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)
"I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words
they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well."
Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
"Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words."
Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)
"The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily;
there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past begind, but it would not leave me."
Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
"I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought
back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between."
Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
"Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew.
Sometimes, people could surprise you."
Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
"If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here. "
Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)
"So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole."
Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
"What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they came close, as if you
might just break free of whatever was holding you and throw yourself at them with enough force to easily overwhelm you both. I had to wonder, but he
clearly knew: you could see it, feel it coming off him, like a heat. I almost envied him that. Almost."
Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)
"I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say."
Sarah Dessen
"Next thing you know she'll be on the bus and selling T-shirts in the parking lot, showing off her boobs to get in the stage door."
"At least she has boobs to show," Jess said.
"I have boobs," Chloe said, pointing to her chest. "Just because they're not weighing me down doesn't mean they're not substantial."
"Okay, B cup," Jess said, taking a sip of her drink.
"I have boobs!" Chloe said again, a bit too loudly--she'd already had a couple of minibottles at the Spot. "My boobs are great, goddammit. You know that?
They're fantastic! My boobs are amazing."
Sarah Dessen
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