1,310 Quotes by Sarah Dessen

In the end, though, maybe it’s not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn’t do it alone.

I was actually kind of a hot mess in high school. I did a lot of things in high school I’m not proud of. I wasn’t a good student and I wasn’t particularly a good daughter. I wasn’t very engaged.

If you’re not getting hurt, you’re not riding hard enough.

Even if you couldn’t see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked do hare, all alone to grow.

You can’t always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.

I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I’d never have any time to write.

I wasn’t very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.

Maybe that’s what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the distance across, and the way over or around it, whichever you chose in the end.