Quotes from Sarah Dessen

call it crazy, or just chicken salad. But within reason, or without it i was in it too.

estaba empezando a darme cuenta de que lo desconocido no es siempre lo más temible. La gente que mejor te conoce puede suponer un peligro mayor, porque las palabras que dicen y las cosas que piensan tienen el riesgo no solo de dar miedo, sino también de ser verdad.

Maybe she said. I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring

Careful, she called out to me, her voice sharp; part admonishment, part warning. But I'd been that way all this time, and it hadn't changed a thing. Maybe it was better to barrel through life, breaking fragile things and catching on every jagged edge. Neat or messy, calm or crazy, I still ended up in this same place.

It was the only time I'd ever heard someone ask, Can you grab me the spoon? as opposed to a spoon, which at least connoted there was more than one.

Then, Kristy continued,nodding at her,life was very short,literally.But now that I'm better,it seems so long I have to squint to see even the edges of it. It's all in the view,Macy.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 can never know for sure,so you'd better make every second count.

You need a third option, he said. Yeah. I guess i do. He nodded, absorbing this. Well, he said,For what it's worth, it's been my experience that they don't appear at first. You kind of have to look a little more closely. And when does that happen? He shugged. When you're ready to see them, I guess.

Sure, there was no guarantee any of these things would actually happen as he envisioned. But maybe that wasn"t the point.It was the planning that counted, whether it ever came to fruition or not.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn to know the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

I told you. It was interesting' [Annabel] 'Interesting,' he [Owen] said, 'is not a word.' 'Since when?

But that's just the thing thought. Family isn't something that is supposed to be static or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else. Even that picture of James's family was only the true representation for that day. By the next, something has probably changed. It had to.

Yo había pensado que no tenia una casa. Pero justo ahí, justo en ese momento, me di cuenta de que estaba equivocada. Hogar no era una casa, o un pueblo en un mapa. Era donde sea que estuviera la gente que amas, donde sea que estén juntos. No un lugar, sino un momento, y luego otro, construyéndose uno sobre otro como ladrillos para construir un sólido refugio que te gustaría conservar por el resto de tu vida, sin importar a donde vayas.

People didn't forget anything in a small town.

All this time and he could still make my heart jump.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I was just a fool.

Again, this made me think of Daisy, and her white lie about the dresses. We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love--all kinds--was really all about.

My dreams were dull as my everyday life.

Aceptar todo lo bueno y lo malo de alguien. Es algo muy bueno a lo cual aspirar. La parte difícil es en verdad hacerlo.

We were all staring as we passes him, slowly, like a tourist at a wildlife park watching elephants from the safety of their wagon.

That's my point. That's why we can't forget. No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.

When you've never gotten love from someone, you dob't know what it might look like if it ever does appear.

You should have seen your face, she said, her breath hot in my ear. Sa-woooon.

Everyone else could get through to my mother: all they had to do was dial a number and wait for her to pick up. If only, I thought, it was that easy for me.

This was just not fair. To get a taste of freedom, only to instantly be punished for it.