1,310 Quotes by Sarah Dessen

You can’t measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments. Some in life are light, like a touch. Others, you can’t help but stagger beneath.

If this was my forever, I didn't want to spend another second of it here.

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy details of another farewell. Now, my fingers hovered over my track pad, moving the cursor down to his comment section before I stopped myself. What was the point? Anything I said now would only be an afterthought.Elizabeth who goes by her middle name

Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.

It was like Abe took some part of him when he went, you know? He’s never been the same.