1,310 Quotes by Sarah Dessen

You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can’t fake, no matter how hard you try.

You can’t make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

If you didn’t always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it’s enough – more than enough, even – just to be there.

Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it’s not what we want, at least it’s something.

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone’s bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn’t know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I’d ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.

With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn’t waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.

We didn’t talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn’t.

Maybe I’d just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing.