Quotes from Sarah Dessen

And love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

This made me smile, reminding me of how much I really liked my brother. Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.

Monica's about sick, she's almost inconsolable

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..

Mayonnaise," Morgan said, "is a lot like men.

I'd just never really taken the time to picture it. It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-Mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school.

Girls can't set off firecrackers on people's front porches? " "They can," he said as I cranked the engine. "But they're smart enough not to. That's the difference.

All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.

It's been a long night. Aren't they all.

But idols fall, and sometimes they land right on you and leave you flattened.

Mais dans la vie, tout n'est pas parfait. Parfois, il faut se fabriquer sa propre histoire. Donner un petit coup de pouce au destin, tu comprends?

Each time I thought I'd felt all I could for him, there was more.

May you always have the answers to each other's most important questions.

Family Even though you're stuck with them, at the same time they're also stuck with you.

It took a lot to have hope in this world where so little evidence of it existed.

I never expected anything from anyone. Which was not the same thing as not wanting, ever, to be surprised.

It seemed like things either stayed just the same or changed irrevocably. And like most times I found myself with hard choices, I just wished there was something clear and easy, right in between.

The past was always present, in its way, and you can't help but remember. Even if you can't remember at all.

In a perfect wedding- or world- you wanted the best possible beginning. Start in a high note and, no matter what song follows, chances are just better that it will be music to your ears.

Me and Ethan, dancing in the dark at the end of the world.

All I could think was that here, finally, for once, I wasn't only watching and reporting but part of this moving, changing world as well.

La música [...] fue una vía de escape. Todo lo demás estaba cambiando o llegaba a su fin, pero la música era un recurso vasto, infinito.

I was here, too. But all my life I felt like an observer than an active participant. It was safer there but could be lonely too, or so I was now realizing. Maybe there was a middle ground between living too hard and living at all. Maybe, here, I was finding it.

I was doing it again, jumping around. But it was so hard to start at the beginning when you knew how it would end.