1,310 Quotes by Sarah Dessen

Good be- gets bad, something lost leads to found...

The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though; it wasn't empty so much as chosen. There's an entirely different feel to quiet when you're with someone else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference between a pause and an ending.

It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just know.

I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.

For as long as I could remember, other people had either overshadowed me or left me out in the open, alone. But Mac, as Layla had said all those weeks ago, was always somewhere nearby. He left me enough space to stand alone, but stood at the ready for the moment that I didn’t want to. It was the perfect medium, I was learning. Like he was my saint, the one I’d been waiting for.

What happened to goodbye?

Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.

Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?Dexter: You're here, aren't you?