1,310 Quotes by Sarah Dessen

I think I’m way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it’s not for me.

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.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the last few months, it’s that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.

He’s getting dumped. And he doesn’t even know it yet. He’s probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling.

You get what you give, but also what you’re willing to take.

There’s just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn’t. Time wasn’t a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.

This is personal, she’d said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn’t see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.

If something doesn’t work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don’t just throw it away. Everything can’t be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.