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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

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.

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

It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.

Sarah Dessen
Memories, Stills, Ifs
Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.253, Penguin

So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.

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

I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real.

Sarah Dessen
Fear, Memories, Real
"Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, April 6, 2006.

The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.

Sarah Dessen
Memories, Perfect, Cracks

And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she was wrong. I had seen that comet. I knew it as well as I knew my own face, my own hands. My own heart.

Sarah Dessen
Memories, Heart, Hands
Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.133, Penguin

It was like those songs I'd heard as a child, each so familiar, and all mine. When i got older and realized the words were sad, the stories tragic, it didn't make me love them any less. By then they were already part of me, woven into my conciousness & memory

Sarah Dessen
Song, Children, Memories
Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.156, Penguin

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