Sarah Dessen Quotes|Quotes said by Sarah Dessen

• Sarah Dessen Quote #1

  -¿Peor que los gritos?
  -Mucho peor -dijo, asintiendo con la cabeza-. Mira, en una discusión, al menos, sabes qué es lo que está pasando. O tienes una idea. El silencio es... Puede ser cualquier cosa. Es tan...
  -Tan ensordecedor... -terminé por él [...].
  -Exactamente.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #2

  ... Everything he feels, he feels strongly. Too strongly, sometimes. I think he freaks people out.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #3

  a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #4

  A united front announcing a split.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #5

  Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #6

  After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #7

  After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #8

  Algunas cosas no duran para siempre, pero otras sí. Como una buena canción, o un buen libro, o un buen recuerdo que se puede recuperar y contemplar en los malos momentos..

• Sarah Dessen Quote #9

  All I want is someone decent.” She sniffled again, her eyes filling with tears. “You know? Kind. Good. Like in all those love stories I’m such an expert on. It can’t just be fiction. It can’t. Those guys are out there, I know it. I just can’t find them.” Those guys were out there. In fact, one was watching us right now, somewhere nearby. Keeping his distance, knowing she needed me to herself right then, but still, just outside the door.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #10

  All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #11

  And so really, you have given me no choice but to take you shopping by
  force.” She sighed, then reached up, dropping her sunglasses down from
  their perch on her head to cover her eyes. “Do you even realize how happy
  the average teenage girl would be in your shoes? I have a credit card. We’re
  at the mall. I want to buy you things. It’s like adolescent nirvana.”
  
  - Cora

• Sarah Dessen Quote #12

  Anger's not bad, he said. It's human...

• Sarah Dessen Quote #13

  Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #14

  Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?

• Sarah Dessen Quote #15

  As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on my way. Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving meastounded, amazed and most of all, alive.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #16

  As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #17

  As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #18

  As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real

• Sarah Dessen Quote #19

  Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #20

  Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #21

  Best Friends.
  
  And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride.
  So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once....

• Sarah Dessen Quote #22

  But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #23

  But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #24

  But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #25

  But I didn't. I didn't say anything, if only because I had no idea how to respond to such an overture. If my experience with friends was sparse, what I knew about boys- other than a competitors for grades or class rank- was nonexistent

• Sarah Dessen Quote #26

  But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #27

  But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #28

  But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #29

  But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.

• Sarah Dessen Quote #30

  But wasn't that always the way. It's never something huge that changes everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you're busy focusing on the big picture.