Sarah DessenAnyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong. ✨ Sarah Dessen (2006). The Truth About Forever, p.327, Penguin371Truth
Sarah DessenNo matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all lin… ▶372HopeTime
Sarah DessenLove is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.361Love
Sarah DessenIt wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore. ✨ Sarah Dessen (2011). What Happened to Goodbye, p.204, Penguin372Death
Sarah DessenIt's so, so stupid what we do to ourselves because we're afraid. It's so stupid. ✨ Sarah Dessen (2004). Keeping the Moon, p.110, Penguin372Politics
Sarah DessenBecause you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to. ✨ Sarah Dessen (2004). … ▶372HumanityLifeTime
Sarah DessenIf you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed. ✨ Sarah Dessen (2008). Lock and Key, p.206, Penguin373Philosophy
Sarah DessenI bet you can't eat ten bananas! I bet you're right.362Politics
Sarah DessenAfter all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, app… ▶362LifeLoveTime
Sarah DessenYou punched him by accident. ✨ Sarah Dessen (2008). Just Listen, p.360, Penguin351Time
Sarah DessenIt's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences. ✨ Sarah Dessen (2008). Just Listen, p.124, Penguin362Humanity
Sarah DessenBut anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the… ▶373Love
Sarah DessenIt's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than … ▶351HumanityHumorThought
Sarah DessenBut when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions. ✨ Sarah Dessen (2006). The Truth About Forever, p.45, Penguin373Truth
Sarah DessenFrom up above, in a plane passing over, you’d just see one little light in all this dark, with no idea of the lives that were being lived within it, and in the house beside, and b… ▶341Thought
Sarah DessenIt'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… ▶363LifeThoughtTruth
Sarah DessenI'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 … ▶374ReadingThoughtTime
Sarah DessenI had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart. ✨ Sarah Dessen (2006). The Truth About Forever, p.245, Penguin374LoveTruth
Sarah DessenAre those the only options? Nothing or forever? ✨ Sarah Dessen (2004). This Lullaby, p.154, Penguin363Humanity
Sarah DessenWhat you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a project, but a prize. you know? ✨ Sarah Dessen (2006). The Truth About Fo… ▶352Truth
Sarah DessenI’d only met him once, at the mall. He was tall, with a big floppy shock of blond hair he was always getting out of his face by jerking his head suddenly to the side, whiplash-sty… ▶363Love
Sarah DessenYou can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.374Time
Sarah DessenLeaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard. ✨ Sarah Dessen (2008). Lock and Key, p.136, Penguin374Humanity
Sarah DessenEveryone laughed, and just like that, the conversation shifted, jumping to another topic. It was fast and furious, the talking, the emotions, the back-and-forth and forth-and-back… ▶352Humor
Sarah DessenDuring this time we've been apart, it's you I've thought of when I'm at my weakest, and you who have pulled me through. ✨ Dreamland. Book by Sarah Dessen, September 1, 2000.… ▶341ReadingThoughtTime
Sarah DessenI was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations … ▶364Time
Sarah Dessenand I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all wa… ▶364Truth
Sarah DessenObviously it won't all run smoothly. But it's important to awknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn fromt them. ✨ Sarah Dessen (2008).… ▶331Thought
Sarah DessenI 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.342Politics
Sarah DessenBeing brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.375Reading
