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Sarah Dessen Quotes - Page 4

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

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

Love, Marriage, I Hate You

"This Lullaby". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2002.

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

I Like You, Giving Up, Love You

Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.149, Penguin

Love can make up for a lot.

This Lullaby, What You Love

Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.180, Penguin

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

Love, Life, Positivity

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.138, Penguin

We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.

Lucky, Needs

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.267, Penguin

Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.

Ugly Things, Sometimes, Time Love

Sarah Dessen (2004). “That Summer”, p.82, Penguin

After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.

Missing, Happened

"Dreamland". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2000.

The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my face in a thousand expressions, and the warmth of a baby's kick beneath my hand. I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.

Girl, Baby, Warrior

You just had to know where to look.

Looks, Knows

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.221, Penguin

nothing is guaranteed.... So don't be afraid. Be alive.

Alive

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, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. In the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.

Love, Faith, Hurt

Sarah Dessen (2011). “This Lullaby”, p.187, Hachette UK

You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.

Hurt, First Love, Boys

"That Summer". Book by Sarah Dessen, 1996.

Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

Family, Divorce, People

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.193, Penguin

Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?

Trying, Alternatives, Looks

Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.165, Penguin

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

Love, Heart, Fate

Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.180, Penguin

funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story

Beautiful, Song, Stories

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

This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.

Waiting, Over You, Finishing

"Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2006.

Everyone had a forever.

Forever

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

I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.

Song, People, Forever

Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.45, Penguin

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.

Lucky, Weight, Bears

Sarah Dessen (2006). “Just Listen: A Novel”, Viking Childrens Books

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.

Inspirational, Running, Past

"Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2006.

Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

Knows, Either Or, Capable

Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.149, Penguin

Very quietly, I heard a voice in my ear.It said, in a weird, cheesy, right-out-of-one-of-my-mother's-novels way, "Ah. Wemeet again." I turned my head, just slightly, and right there, practically on top of me, was theguy from the car dealership. He was wearing a red Mountain Fresh Detergent T-shirt - not just fresh: mountain fresh! - it proclaimed, and was smiling at me. "Oh,God," I said. "No, it's Dexter.

Mother, Voice, Car

And 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.

Relationship, Order, Back Love

Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.179, Penguin

I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.

Should Have, Should

Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.155, Penguin

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