1,310 Quotes by Sarah Dessen

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    Eyes closed, I saw only the blackness, reminding me of this one thing, the most deep of my secrets; eyes open, there was only the world that didn't know it, bright, inescapable, and somehow, still there.

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    Nobody was all bad, I was learning. Even the worst person had someone who cared about them at some point" - Sydney Stanford

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    It was one thing to let these thoughts haunt the dark spaces of my mind, but another entirely to put them into the light, making them real.

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    My own life felt flat and sad too much of the time; it was reassuring, somehow, to lose myself in someone else's.

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    I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall part and see options instead of endings.

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    When faced with the scariest of things, all you want is to turn away. But you can't. That's why it's not only important for us to be seen, but to have someone look for us, as well.

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    You never know what lay ahead; the future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.

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