Sarah Dessen Quotes About Bike

Quotes about: Bike

• The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

  Sarah Dessen

  Numbers, Long, Lines

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.229, Penguin

• Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike." "What?" "He'll understand.

  Sarah Dessen

  Doe, Said, Get Back

• "I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?" "Like I said," he said as I unlocked the car, "I'm not so sure that you should go by my example." "Why not?" "Because I have my regrets," he said. "Also, I'm a guy. And guys do different stuff." "Like ride bikes?" I said. "No," he replied. "Like have food fights. And break stuff. And set off firecrackers on people's front porches. And..." "Girls can't set off firecrackers on people's front porches?" "They can," he said... "But they're smart enough not to. That's the difference."

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Regret, Smart

  "Along for the Ride". Book by Sarah Dessen, June 16, 2009.

• Maybe it was true, and being a girl could be about interest rates and skinny jeans, riding bikes and wearing pink. Not about any one thing, but everything.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Jeans, Riding

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.149, Penguin

• Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

  Sarah Dessen

  Sports, Girly, Smart

  Sarah Dessen (2010). “Along for the Ride”, p.169, Penguin UK

• I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that.

  Sarah Dessen

  Green, Firsts, Steps

• Get back on that bike.

  Sarah Dessen

  Get Back, Bike

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.233, Penguin

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