1,310 Quotes by Sarah Dessen

Conciseness is underrated.

Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn’t, not at all.

The world is speaking to you every day, you just don’t know how to listen.

Because now, I didn’t care what they thought. It wasn’t new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad. Macy page 199.

I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don’t regret things. Because at least I didn’t spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.

It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn’t bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.

And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn’t matter anymore.

You asked me to go out with you. I know you probably changed your mind. But you should know, the answer was yes. It’s always been yes when it comes to you.

I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn’t. People weren’t meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.