Sarah Dessen Quotes - Page 6

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• True friendship is a promise you keep forever.

  Sarah Dessen

  Forever, Promise, True Friendship

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, Penguin

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• When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.

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  Heart, Air, World

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.52, Penguin

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• It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

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  Happiness, Happy, Being Yourself

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.204, Penguin

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• one word could change the whole world

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  World, Whole, One Word

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• I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

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  Giving, Firsts, Insight

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen". Interview with Aine Fey, ainesrealm.blogspot.com. June 6, 2013.

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• "It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will."

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  Long, Firsts, Said

  "Keeping the Moon". Book by Sarah Dessen, 1999.

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• 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.

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  Real, Fresh Start, Honest

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.143, Penguin UK

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• But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.” “You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.

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  Giving, Doubt, Benefits

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.174, Penguin

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• There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

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  Heart, World, Quiet

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “Just Listen: A Novel”, Viking Childrens Books

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• But I saw Blake earlier and he said he and Nate were taking off for an overnight business thing. So..." "... you're just going to jump their fence and their pool," I finished for her. Silence. Then Jamie said, "It's twenty-five degrees! In December! Do you know what this means?" "The apocalypse?

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Silence, Twenties

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• I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.

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  Mean, Way, Surprising

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.155, Penguin

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• That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

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  Grief, Grieving, Language

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.70, Penguin

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• Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.

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  Life Is Short, Appreciate, Looks

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.98, Penguin

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• It was just perfect, just right all at once.

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  Perfect

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “That Summer”, p.3, Penguin

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• As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.

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  Listening, Matter, Hard

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.241, Penguin

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• But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.

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  Path, Made, Checklists

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.222, Penguin

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• We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone's eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves.

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  Ocean, Eye, Blue

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.175, Penguin

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• There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?

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  Depends

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.145, Penguin

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• Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.

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  Perfect, Adjusting, Cases

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.88, Penguin

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• See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which.

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  Silence, Loud, Silence Is

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.147, Penguin

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• Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.

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  Daughter, Phones, Phone Calls

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.119, Penguin

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• People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less

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  People, Way, Don't Change

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.16, Penguin

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• When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features were there. but the colors, the zigzags and plaids, the bits and pieces that made up me, Halley, weren't yet in place. Scarlett's vibrant reds and golds helped some, but I was still waiting.

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  Book, Color, Waiting

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.20, Penguin

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• I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.

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  Loneliness, Insomnia, Feelings

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.156, Penguin

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• I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter how strong or weak I was, she was a part of me, as crucial as my own heart. I would never be strong enough, in all my life, to do without her.

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  Mother, Strong, Heart

  Sarah Dessen (2003). “How to Deal”, Puffin

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