Sarah Dessen Quotes

I started crying again, my voice ragged. He told me to calm down. He told me it was going to be all right. And then, he told he'd be there soon.”

He was very quiet for a moment. Where are you?

You asked me to go out with you. I know you probably changed your mind. But you should know, the answer was yes. It's always been yes when it comes to you."

The answer . . . he said slowly.

Yeah, I said, swallowing and looking out my open door, at the ocean. The answer's yes.

Mclean? he asked. "Is that you?

Yes, I said after his hello.

I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up.

It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.

Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.

Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it was why she'd pretty much talked nonstop since I'd approached her and asked for a ride. I'd barely had time to explain the situation before she had launched into a dozen stories to illustrate the point that Things Happened But People Were Okay in the End.

I felt tears prick my eyes as I looked down at the model again, looking at that girl and boy on the curb. Forever in that place, together.

When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.”

I was drowning in broad daylight and no one could tell.

Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.