1,310 Quotes by Sarah Dessen

Home wasn’t a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.

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

I was so scared about being discovered, but nobody came. Nobody heard. In my own ears, though, my sobs sounded primal and scary, like something I would have turned off if I’d been able to.

So finally, I decided that the best response – the safest – was none at all.

But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren’t what people wanted to hear.

So you should remember that, when you’re thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it’s not so bad.

During 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.

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.

I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it – it wan’t Will’s. It was mine.