Sarah Dessen Quotes - Page 18

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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.

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  Eye, Water, Letters

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• Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.165, Penguin

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• You can't act like you care about someone but not let them care about you.

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  Care, Like You, Cares About Someone

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.241, Penguin

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• One word," Ted replied, dead serious, "can change the whole world." There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa said to Chloe, loud enough for all of us to hear (she'd had a minibottle or two herself), "I bet he did really well on his SATs.

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  Two, Chloe, World

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “This Lullaby”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• The way I see it," she continued, "is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

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  Way, Meant To Be

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.93, Penguin

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• This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn’t just a season or a time but a whole world I’d forgotten. I’d never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.

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  Firefly, Night, World

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.64, Penguin

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• She tried to be someone people liked. She tried to be someone people disliked. But all I became was someone who didn't succeed with anything I tried to be.

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  People, Succeed

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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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• Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie

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  Friendship, Hurt, Honest

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• What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?

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  Said

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• Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

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  Thinking, Ponds, World

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.282, Penguin

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• I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous.

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  Fighting, Thinking, Would Be

  Sarah Dessen (1998). “Someone Like You”, Viking Childrens Books

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• Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour, could make all the difference. So much hanging on just these things, tiny increments that together build a life. Like words build a story, and what had Ted said? One word can change the entire world.

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  Differences, Together, Stories

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.221, Penguin

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• What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?

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  Buying, Crime, Said

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.78, Penguin

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• You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther

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  Tic Tacs, Gum, Esther

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.93, Penguin

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• It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.

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  Stupid, Doe, Facts

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.126, Penguin

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• It's all about you, Colie." She touched one finger to her temple, tap tap tap. "Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine." There is something infectious about confidence. And for that one moment, with my eyebrows burning and my eyes watering, I believed. "And good hair never hurt either.

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  Hurt, Believe, Eye

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• When you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well.

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  Lucky, Wells, Ifs

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.18, Penguin

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• It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

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  Sweat, Perfect, Want

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.7, Penguin

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• I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on. Maybe it had seen places you never had, been rerouted and passed through so many strange hands, but still somehow found its way back to you, all before the day even began.

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  Doors, Hands, Would Be

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.25, Penguin

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• And so really, you have given me no choice but to take you shopping by force.” She sighed, then reached up, dropping her sunglasses down from their perch on her head to cover her eyes. “Do you even realize how happy the average teenage girl would be in your shoes? I have a credit card. We’re at the mall. I want to buy you things. It’s like adolescent nirvana.” - Cora

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  Girl, Teenage, Eye

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• If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.

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  Expect Nothing, Worst, Disappointed

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.206, Penguin

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• I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely.

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  Block, Thinking, Phoenix

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.310, Penguin

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• But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.

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  Forever, Truth About Forever, Happenings

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.265, Penguin

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• You couldn't see the key around my neck: it hung too low under both collars. But if I leaned in close, I could make it out, buried deep beneath. Out of sight, hard to recognize, but still able to be found, even if I was the only one to ever look for it.

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  Keys, Sight, Looks

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.35, Penguin

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