1,310 Quotes by Sarah Dessen

Events conspired to bring you back to where you’d been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.

I’m just writing what I know. I’ve never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.

It’s not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn’t a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.

I couldn’t tell her. I couldn’t tell anyone. As long as I didn’t say it aloud, it wasn’t real.

There’s a real bonding in someone beating the crap out of you. – Rolly.

I’d been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.

You can never be sure of anyone until you’re close enough to see them clearly.

I would miss Colby, but it wasn’t going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.

But all the love in the world won’t save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.