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.

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.

I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.

We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.

I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

During this time we've been apart, it's you I've thought of when I'm at my weakest, and you who have pulled me through.

If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.

See you in dreamland.

It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

In the open sea, he said. Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.

Rogerson, I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, where would I find the pelagic zone?

Duh, he said, smoothing my hair back, Venus and Earth.

Sitting in front of my parents' house as he kissed me goodnight: Which two planets are almost identical in size?

Energy, he said, handing me my burrito.