Quotes from Sarah Dessen

Maybe it was the absence of thought that she loved about being out there, the world narrowing to just the pounding of the waves as the water moved in and out.

This lost, loose feeling that no consequence could be so harmful as the sense of staying where you were, or of being who you are.

It's both, it all depends on how you choose to live it. Forever is always changing.' [About if life is short or long]

It was one thing to let these thoughts haunt the dark spaces of my mind, but another entirely to put them into the light, making them real.

I was beginning to understand, though, that there were no such tings as absolutes, not in life or in people. Like Owen said, it was day by day, if not moment by moment. 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.

You only really fall apart in front of people you know can piece you back together.

I want you to give her a possibility. And that's what a key represents. An open door, a chance.

It's all in the view...that's what I mean about forever...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.

School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives.

Now, don't panic," he said, putting his hand on my arm. "Breathe. And just appreciate, for a minute, the freedom in this chaos.

If life is a journey, wouldn't you rather be the person behind the wheel than the one just being carried along?

It meant nothing, this song. All my life I'd let other people put so much weight to it, until it was heavy enough to drown me, but it was just music. But even there, locked in the stall, I could still hear it going, those notes I'd known by heart for as long as I could remember, now twisted and different, with another man I hardly knew who had some claim to me, however small, singing the words.

And suddenly I felt completely strange, like the distance between us was much much greater than what I could see from where I was standing. Like that line, always so clear to me, had somehow shifted, or never even been where I'd thought it was at all.

Friends don't leave each other in the woods. they are the one who come and take you out

If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together. You see what I'm saying?" At

Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. And that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight

Earlier in the summer, I'd found the syllabi to a couple of the courses I was taking at Defriese in the fall, and I'd hunted down a few of the texts at the U bookstore, figuring it couldn't hurt to acquaint myself with the material.

I leaned into her for once, instead of away, appreciating the pull I felt there, something almost magnetic that held us to each other. I knew it would always be there, no matter how much of the world I put between us. That strong sense of what we shared, good and bad, that led us to here, where my own story began.

When my dad died, it was like everything felt really shaky, you know? And trying to be the best I could be, it gave me something to focus on. If I could just do everything right, then I was safe.

how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.

There's something about dancing that's like being stripped naked; you have to be very self-confident to thrash around in public, deliberately attracting attention. I'd never been that way, even without the weight that once kept me in everyone's eyes. Dancers were the lightest and brightest of butterflies, while girls like me stayed low, bellies scraping along the floor, and watched from there.

Almost, I thought. Out loud I said, Just because we don't see eye to eye on everything doesn't mean we can't be close. Auden

Everyone is something.

what isn't said can hurt the most.