Sarah Dessen Quotes - Page 28

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• So what do you wear to dump somebody?" she asked me, twirling a lock of hair around one finger. "Black, for mourning? Or something cheerful and colorful, to distract them from their pain? Or maybe you wear some sort of camouflage, something that will help you disappear quickly in case they don't take it well.

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  Pain, Hair, Mourning

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.22, Penguin

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• He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling.

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  Ideas, Dry Cleaning, Eating

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.23, Penguin

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• Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to be powerful enough to justify taking up any more of their time? I was doing him a favor, really. Freeing him up for a better opportunity. In fact, I was a practically a saint, if you really thought about it. Exactly.

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  Powerful, Opportunity, Feelings

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.23, Penguin

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• That was the nice thing about the Spot: you could hear everything, but no one could see you.

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  Nice, Nice Things, Spots

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.27, Penguin

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• But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.

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  Thinking, Age, Made

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.241, Penguin

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• I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

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  Filling Up, Space, Empty

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.110, Penguin

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• I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.

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  Real, Long

  Sarah Dessen (2000). “Dreamland: A Novel”, Viking Childrens Books

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

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  Self, Talking, Shells

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.33, Penguin

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

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  Swim, Drifting, Dreamland

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.167, Penguin

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• "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."

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  Girl, Regret, Smart

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

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• This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam bending back from the glass, rubbing his arm. "Pull open," Maggie called out. As Leah rolled her eyes, she said, "He never remembers. It's so weird.

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  Eye, Glasses, Bending

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.130, Penguin

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• [Adam picks up the camera] "I have to get a shot of this." The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous: every single person except me raised their hands at once to cover their faces. The accompanying utterances, though, were varied. I heard everything from "Please no" (Maggie), to "Jesus Christ" (Wallace), to "Stop it or die" (I'm assuming it's obvious).

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  Jesus, Hands, Utterance

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.121, Penguin

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• It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.

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  Gone, Easy

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.34, Penguin

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• You know," I told him,"if you don't know how to eat a cupcake, that's nothing to be ashamed of." Now he did smile. "I know how to eat a cupcake." "Sure you do." "I do," he said. "I just don't want one of those." "Yeah? Prove it.

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  Cupcakes, Want, Yeah

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.99, Penguin

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• Maybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the distance across, and the way over or around it, whichever you chose in the end.

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  Distance, Grief, Depth

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.71, Penguin

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• No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood. If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right.

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  Lucky, Sides, Steps

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.259, Penguin

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• How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it was the same for everyone, that simple.

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  Simple, Assuming, Glances

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.16, Penguin

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• It's only advice. Ignore it if you want.

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  Advice, Want, Ifs

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• I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.

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  Swimming, Water, Growing

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.245, Penguin

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• Everyone laughed, and just like that, the conversation shifted, jumping to another topic. It was fast and furious, the talking, the emotions, the back-and-forth and forth-and-back. I realized that if I tried to focus on it too much, I got overwhelmed. So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.

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  Crazy, Jumping, Talking

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.227, Penguin

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• You can never be sure of anyone until you're close enough to see them clearly.

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  Enough

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.160, Penguin

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• So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.

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  Events, Watches, Repeating History

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.132, Penguin

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• But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge

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  Ideas, Chance, Buried

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.178, Penguin

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• It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.

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  Kind, Great Freedom

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.331, Penguin

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• I walked over, my eyes scanning Luna Blu, my house, and Dave's. But it was the building behind them, that empty hotel, that had the tiniest light, provided by one word, written in fluorescent paint. Maybe it wasn't what was once there, in real life. But in this one, it said it all: STAY.

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  Real, Eye, Light

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.220, Penguin

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