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

Sarah Dessen
Life, People, Choices

Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.

Sarah Dessen
Life, Choices, Looks
Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.174, Penguin

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.

Sarah Dessen
Life, Track, Choices
Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.166, Penguin

But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

Sarah Dessen
Choices, Suggestions, World
Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.45, Penguin

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

Sarah Dessen
Mistake, Forever, Choices
Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.184, Penguin

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.

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

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

Sarah Dessen
Choices, Blame, Ifs
Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.124, Penguin

I wasn't ready for this, but then I probably never would be, and this year, like so much else, wouldn't wait. I had no choice but to get out of my car, with everyone watching and begin in earnest, alone. So I did

Sarah Dessen
Years, Car, Choices
Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.4, Penguin

It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice, and this was it, where she felt safe, in a world she could, for the most part, control.

Sarah Dessen
Mother, Choices, Forever
Sarah Dessen (2008). “The Truth About Forever”, p.291, Penguin UK

As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on my way. Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving meastounded, amazed and most of all, alive.

Sarah Dessen
Mean, Kissing, Choices

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