This Lullaby Quotes

• Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Marriage, I Hate You

  "This Lullaby". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2002.

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• Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.

  Sarah Dessen

  Song, Memories, Book

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.231, Penguin

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• Some things don't last forever, but some things do.

  Sarah Dessen

  Forever, Lasts

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.231, Penguin

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• And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

  Sarah Dessen

  Relationship, Order, Back Love

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.179, Penguin

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• Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Inspirational, Strong

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.180, Penguin

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• No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Keys, Order

  "This Lullaby". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2002.

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• I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

  Sarah Dessen

  Loving Someone, Leap Of Faith, Facts

  "This Lullaby". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2002.

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• Love can make up for a lot.

  Sarah Dessen

  What You Love

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.180, Penguin

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• What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they came close, as if you might just break free of whatever was holding you and throw yourself at them with enough force to easily overwhelm you both.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Might, Enough

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.113, Penguin

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• I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.

  Sarah Dessen

  Self, Feelings, Together

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.14, Penguin

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• Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.

  Sarah Dessen

  Break Up, Breakup, Hurt

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “This Lullaby”, p.167, Hachette UK

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• This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it, wherever you may go, even if I let you down, this lullaby plays on.

  Sarah Dessen

  Running, Simple, Play

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.231, Penguin

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• I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.

  Sarah Dessen

  Song, People, Forever

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.45, Penguin

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• Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Goes On, Lullaby

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• The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Heart, Fate

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.180, Penguin

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• You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Song, Reason

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.155, Penguin

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• Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. And that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. In the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Faith, Hurt

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “This Lullaby”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

  Langston Hughes

  Rain, Best Kiss, Liquid

  Langston Hughes (2015). “Sail Away”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

  Langston Hughes

  Rain, Kissing, Water

  Langston Hughes (2015). “Sail Away”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• closed my eyes and listened. It was like music I'd heard all my life, even more than "This Lullaby." All those keystrokes, all those letters, so many words. I brushed my fingers over the beads and watched as her image rippled, like it was on water, breaking apart gently and shimmering before becoming whole again.

  Sarah Dessen

  Eye, Water, Letters

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