1,310 Quotes by Sarah Dessen

funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story

I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they did, they never looked close. I wasn't shiny and charming like my brother, stunning and graceful like my mother, or smart and dynamic like my friends. That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.

It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.

No matter where you are, home or the strangest of places, everyone wants to look like they know where they’re going.

I understand that you are under a lot of pressure and that it's hard being a bride. That is all well and good. But it does not, ever, entitle you to be rude, selfish, uncaring, and generally obnoxious to me or Haven or anyone else. We've been very patient with you because we're your family and we love you, but it stops here. I don't care if the wedding is two weeks or two hours away, you were never raised to behave this way.

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.

You can make your life, or life can make you. Was it really that simple of a choice?

I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.