1,310 Quotes by Sarah Dessen

All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

It’s so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself

I’d only met him once, at the mall. He was tall, with a big floppy shock of blond hair he was always getting out of his face by jerking his head suddenly to the side, whiplash-style. Rina found this incredibly sexy. It made me nervous. - Caitlin about Jeff

Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.

We had just heard that story recounted so many times over the years that it was easy to take the details and fold them into our own sparse memories.

It's not a switch you can just flip off", Dr. Marshall had told me once. "If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love-and everything that followed is part of letting it go.

My point is you're different here. Hollis I've only been here for a month. A lot can happen in a month he replied. Shoot in two weeks I met my future wife changed my entire life's trajectory and bought my first tie. You bought a tie I asked. Because honestly this was the most shocking part.

But as I dropped my hand from my eyes to say this to Jamie, I realized I couldn’t see him anymore. My view was blocked by my sister, who had moved to stand between us, one hand stretched out behind her, toward me.