Quotes from Sarah Dessen

I bet you can't eat ten bananas! I bet you're right.

You don't have to say it out loud. I already know why you like me.' 'You do, huh?' 'Yep.' He wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me closer. 'So,' I said. 'Tell me' 'It's an animal attraction,' he said simply. 'Totally chemical.' 'Hmm,' I said. 'You could be right.' 'It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me.' 'No?' 'Nope.' His hands were in my hair now, and I was leaning in, not able to totally make out his face, but his voice was clear, close to my ear. 'Just that you do.

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

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

You didn't fail. You just opted out. There's a difference.

I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out. So what happened? I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all

There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?

Nothing had been okay, not for a long time. And every moment that I thought I was getting close, like the one I'd had earlier, seemed to remind the universe that I didn't deserve that, not yet.

Don't you give me no rotten tomato, Dexter sang, just 'cause to your crazy shit I cannot relate-o.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing.

But you don't have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt." "You don't have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn't always out to get you.

Watching them, I thought again of how we can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.

Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.

The dead aren't the only ones who vanish: you, too, can disappear in plain sight if enough is taken from you. I was still missing, in many ways. And I wasn't sure I wanted to be found.

He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I'd won a prize, because he was so sparing with them.

Don't I know it.

You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.

Forever [is] so many different things. It is always changing... it is twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wish would last and last

If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way

This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.

If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don't change because of it. It's just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.