Quotes from Sarah Dessen

You asked me to go out with you. I know you probably changed your mind. But you should know, the answer was yes. It's always been yes when it comes to you.

I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter how strong or weak I was, she was a part of me, as crucial as my own heart. I would never be strong enough, in all my life, to do without her.

I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.

An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way.

Say what you will, but you're never prepared for the surprise attack.

If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. but being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.

All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.

I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real.

Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose.

Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.

You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can't exist without the other. It's sort of a hippie thing.-Wes

Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.

Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened- good, bad, or anywhere in between- it was always, if nothing else, all your own.

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.

I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.

I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.

I've given lots of people chances, she said suddenly, as if Marion was still in the room to hear us. But there's only so much faith you can have in people.

If what you're asking is how I debated whether or not to love her the answer is I didn't. Not at all. It just happened. I didn't ever question it; by the time I realized what was happening, it was already done.

I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.

I've seen what commitment leads to. Going in is the easy part. It's the ending that sucks! -Remy

Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.

It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.