Sarah Dessen Quotes

For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.

"Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.

Mclean? he asked. "Is that you?

Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.

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.

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 first place.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.

After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.

I am not," I said. "I've been waiting forever."

It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.

I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.

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.

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

"I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?"
"Like I said," he said as I unlocked the car, "I'm not so sure that you should go by my example."
"Why not?"
"Because I have my regrets," he said. "Also, I'm a guy. And guys do different stuff."
"Like ride bikes?" I said.
"No," he replied. "Like have food fights. And break stuff. And set off firecrackers on people's front porches. And..."
"Girls can't set off firecrackers on people's front porches?"
"They can," he said... "But they're smart enough not to. That's the difference."