Sarah Dessen Quotes: 81

• There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

  The Truth About Forever

• Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

  Someone Like You

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

  This Lullaby

• Don't think or judge, just listen.

  Just Listen

• No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.

  This Lullaby

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

  Just Listen

• I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

  This Lullaby

• Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.

  This Lullaby

• Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

  Just Listen

• It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.

  The Truth About Forever

• Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.

• You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

  This Lullaby

• That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

  The Truth About Forever

• It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

  Lock and Key

• So you're always honest,"I said."Aren't you?" "No,"I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I guess." "I'm not saying I'm a liar,"I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways." "How'd you mean it, then?" "I just...I don't always say what I feel." "Why not?" "Because the truth sometimes hurts,"I said."Yeah,"he said. "So do lies, though.

  Just Listen

• It's all in the view. 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 never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.

  The Truth About Forever

• You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

  Keeping the Moon

• I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

  The Truth About Forever

• Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

• Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.

  This Lullaby

• Silence is so freaking loud

  Just Listen

• Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

  Just Listen

• There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

  Just Listen

• All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.

  Just Listen

• Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.

  The Truth About Forever

• Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside

  Along for the Ride

• The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote

  This Lullaby

• Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

  This Lullaby

• What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.

  The Truth About Forever

• You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.

  Along for the Ride

• You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

  Someone Like You

• I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one.It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run.

  The Truth About Forever

• Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.

  What Happened to Goodbye

• If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

  Dreamland

• But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.

  The Truth About Forever

• It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

  Along for the Ride

• I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.

  The Truth About Forever

• I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.

  What Happened to Goodbye

• But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.

  The Truth About Forever

• Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.

  This Lullaby

• The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

  The Truth About Forever

• The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

  Lock and Key

• If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.

  Keeping the Moon

• Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?

  This Lullaby

• I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.

  The Truth About Forever

• The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

  Lock and Key

• Macy: “In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.”Wes: “How do you win?” he askedMacy: “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.

  The Truth About Forever

• 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.

  What Happened to Goodbye

• You want to take me to a movie?"I asked. "Well, not really,"he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.

  What Happened to Goodbye

• 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.

  The Truth About Forever

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