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Sarah Dessen Quotes - Page 5

All Quotes Acceptance Age Balance Beach Bike Challenges Children Choices Coffee Commitment Dad Determination Disappointment Divorce Doubt Eating Failing Fate Feelings Fighting Fun Giving Giving Up Goodbye Grief Grieving Growing Up Heart High School Home House Hurt Inspirational Kissing Language Leaving Liars Life Listening Love Lying Memories Mom Moon Morning Past Planning Reading Regret Risk Running Sadness School Self Esteem Silence Sleep Struggle Students Summer Understanding Waiting Walking Water Work Out Worry Writing

Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.

Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.

Strong, Best Effort, Weak Spots

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.170, Penguin

If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way

Believe, Way, Persons

Sarah Dessen (2011). “Someone Like You”, p.180, Hachette UK

There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee.

Coffee, Reality, Addiction

The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

Numbers, Long, Lines

Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.229, Penguin

Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called. "Okay, look." Deb's face was dead serious. "I know I just joined this project, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I'm going to be honest. I think you've been going about this all wrong." "I'm offended," Dave told her flatly.

Thinking, Looks, Fifteen

Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.137, Penguin

…It’s not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.

You Choose

Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.246, Penguin

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. Cora was right - we had many families over time. Our family of origion, the family we created, as well as the gorups you moved thorugh while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them were perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. You couldn't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build a world from it.

Blood, People, Giving

"Lock and Key". Book by Sarah Dessen, April 22, 2008.

If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!

Determination, Work Out, Trying

Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.210, Penguin

Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.

Pauses, Pathetic

Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.118, Penguin

He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

Optimism, Fearless, Enough

Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.223, Penguin

I am not breaking my rules,' I snapped, hating that I'd ended up on the advice-recieving end of things, jumping from Dear Remy to Confused in Cincinnati all in one summer.

Summer, Hate, Confused

I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.

Regret, Mistake, Would Be

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

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

Loving Someone, Leap Of Faith, Facts

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

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.

Change, Eye, Scary

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.249, Penguin

Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.

Leaving, Easy, Hard

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.136, Penguin

It shouldn't be 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 ― or impossible ― to lose.

Struggle, Fighting, Would Be

Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.188, Penguin

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.

Distance, Knowing, Lines

Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike." "What?" "He'll understand.

Doe, Said, Get Back

The thing is I'm a great believer in the perfect moment. They don't come around that often.

Perfect, Moments, Believer

Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.

People, Sometimes, Reason

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.

Moving On, Letting Go, Let It Go

Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.242, Penguin

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.

Song, Memories, Book

Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.231, Penguin

Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid beneath us. But then something crossed his face, a thought, a hesitation, and he shifted slightly. Not now. Not yet. It was something I'd done so often - weighing what I could afford to risk, right at that moment - that I recognized it instantly. It was like looking in a mirror.

Kissing, Mirrors, Risk

Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.155, Penguin

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.

Inspirational, Life, Thinking

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.69, Penguin

Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside

Relationship, Couple, Make Sense

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

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