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Sarah Dessen Quotes - Page 14

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Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you. You said the other day life was long, I shot back. Which is it? It's both, she said,

Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you." You said the other day life was long," I shot back. "Which is it?" It's both," she said, shrugging. "It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing." Nothing can be two opposite things at once," I said. "It's impossible." No," she replied, squeezing my hand, "what's impossible is that we actually think it could be anything OTHER than that.

Life Is Short, Thinking, Hands

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.98, Penguin

As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.

Dream, Hopeful, Way

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.102, Penguin

If you're not getting hurt, you're not riding hard enough.

Hurt, Riding, Enough

Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.228, Penguin

Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

Hurt, Knowing, People

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.60, Penguin

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

Trying, Emptiness, Empty

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.269, Penguin

You couldn't see the key around my neck: it hung too low under both collars. But if I leaned in close, I could make it out, buried deep beneath. Out of sight, hard to recognize, but still able to be found, even if I was the only one to ever look for it.

Keys, Sight, Looks

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.35, Penguin

I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.

Doors, Secret, Half

Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.53, Penguin

If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.

Expect Nothing, Worst, Disappointed

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.206, Penguin

And so really, you have given me no choice but to take you shopping by force.” She sighed, then reached up, dropping her sunglasses down from their perch on her head to cover her eyes. “Do you even realize how happy the average teenage girl would be in your shoes? I have a credit card. We’re at the mall. I want to buy you things. It’s like adolescent nirvana.” - Cora

Girl, Teenage, Eye

And she was good to me: strong, fun, and fiercely loyal. And if I didn't have many other friends because of her-most girls were intimidated by her looks, or thought she was too pushy, or just flat-out feared for their boyfriends-it never bothered me. I never missed having a wide, thick circle of girlfriends: Rina was more than enough. We were comfortable with each other's flaws and weaknesses, so we stuck together and kept to ourselves.

Girl, Strong, Fun

Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.29, Penguin

Harder to get in than out, like so little else.

Littles, Harder

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.114, Penguin

It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

Sweat, Perfect, Want

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.7, Penguin

When you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well.

Lucky, Wells, Ifs

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.18, Penguin

This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn’t just a season or a time but a whole world I’d forgotten. I’d never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.

Firefly, Night, World

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.64, Penguin

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.

Order, Long, Proud

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.259, Penguin

We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for a while. Maybe even forever. That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now.

Life, Running, Years

"The Truth About Forever". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2004.

It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.

Daughter, Thinking, Matter

Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.94, Penguin

There's this other half of him I don't know of, it's like he is trying to keep it a secret... if he would just let me inside so I can help.

Secret, Trying, Half

"Lock and Key". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2008.

Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.

Feet, Choices, Way

Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.85, Penguin

Can she be divorced?" I asked. "And famous for her commercials and ideas?" She can be anything," Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. "And so can you.

Ideas, Faces, Firsts

Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.37, Penguin

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

Self Reliance, Weak, Lock And Key

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.28, Penguin

I knew, 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. "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.

Heart, Hands, Space

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.262, Penguin

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

Winning, Boys, Telling The Truth

"The Truth About Forever". Book by Sarah Dessen, May 11, 2004.

Nate: “And,” he said, “boys at twelve aren’t exactly slick with the ladies.” Ruby: “’Slick with the ladies’?” I said. “Are you twelve?

Boys, Twelve, Rubies

This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.

Commitment, Giving, Just Friends

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.52, Penguin

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