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I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign. — Sarah Dessen

But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it.
-Eli — Sarah Dessen

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside ... It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you. — Sarah Dessen

But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too. — Sarah Dessen

I don't want everything to change. — Sarah Dessen

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. — Sarah Dessen

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it. — Sarah Dessen

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm. — Sarah Dessen

During this time we've been apart, it's you I've thought of when I'm at my weakest, and you who have pulled me through. — Sarah Dessen

I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked. — Sarah Dessen

The World," she said, "is chock full of bitchy girls. — Sarah Dessen

This isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. You know? — Sarah Dessen

Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing. — Sarah Dessen

Perhaps because it was nighttime, when things that might have felt odd in daylight instead seemed just right. — Sarah Dessen

You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances. — Sarah Dessen

Are you crazy? Flirting with Eli
Stock in front of Belissa Norwood, in Belissa Norwood's house, while eating Belissa Norwood's
cupcakes? — Sarah Dessen

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

call it chicken salad — Sarah Dessen

I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough. — Sarah Dessen

Who says there has to be a point?" He asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do. — Sarah Dessen

There's no shame in trying to make stuff work, is how I see it. It's better than just accepting the broken. — Sarah Dessen

The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen. — Sarah Dessen

How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone. — Sarah Dessen

anything he did, he did well — Sarah Dessen

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

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back. — Sarah Dessen

It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do. — Sarah Dessen

What happened to goodbye? — Sarah Dessen

Shit," Delia said. "I mean, shoot. No, actually, I mean shit. I really do. — Sarah Dessen

How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect. — Sarah Dessen

Which is this magical listening station, whereupon all musical worth is decided? — Sarah Dessen

What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud? — Sarah Dessen

But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance. — Sarah Dessen

its been a long night" "aren't they all? — Sarah Dessen

I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me. — Sarah Dessen

Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did. — Sarah Dessen

There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all. — Sarah Dessen

Don't think or judge,' I said. 'Just listen. — Sarah Dessen

It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined. — Sarah Dessen

What you do in your dreams is never your choice. But it made me happy anyway. — Sarah Dessen

Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time. — Sarah Dessen

He took the mess that was Macbeth and fixed it, and I wonder if he might, in some small way, be able to do the same for me. — Sarah Dessen

It doesn't matter whether you're the one having to douse a flame or helplessly watching it sputter. Either way, it goes out eventually. — Sarah Dessen

Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.'
'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan. — Sarah Dessen

It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car.
"Most things are, — Sarah Dessen

It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing. — Sarah Dessen

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever. — Sarah Dessen

Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?" I asked him.
He looked at me and then said, "You're here, aren't you? — Sarah Dessen

I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all. — Sarah Dessen

Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable. — Sarah Dessen

Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine. — Sarah Dessen

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop. — Sarah Dessen

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

Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know? — Sarah Dessen

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

You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together. — Sarah Dessen

What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a project, but a prize. you know? — Sarah Dessen

A united front announcing a split. — Sarah Dessen

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were. — Sarah Dessen

Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever. — Sarah Dessen

For all the invisible girls and for my readers, for seeing me — Sarah Dessen

If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would ever come looking. — Sarah Dessen

Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. — Sarah Dessen

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. — Sarah Dessen

Call it crazy, or just chicken salad. — Sarah Dessen

Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time. — Sarah Dessen

Sometimes there isn't a good guy or a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars. — Sarah Dessen

Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy ... — Sarah Dessen

Love can make up for a lot. — Sarah Dessen

Funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story — Sarah Dessen

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered
so many locks not enough keys. — Sarah Dessen

Everything he feels, he feels strongly. Too strongly, sometimes. I think he freaks people out. — Sarah Dessen

It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well. — Sarah Dessen

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy. — Sarah Dessen

Each time I thought I'd felt all I could for him, there was more. — Sarah Dessen

Tic Tacs you actually swallow, though," Esther pointed out. "You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. — Sarah Dessen

Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something. — Sarah Dessen

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim. — Sarah Dessen

Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all. — Sarah Dessen

Like so many before them, they didn't care that my dad was only the messenger. They still wanted to shoot him. — Sarah Dessen

You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence
-Eli — Sarah Dessen

I don't lie."
"You don't lie," I repeated.
"That's what I said."
"Ever."
"Nope."
Sure you don't, I thought. — Sarah Dessen

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew. — Sarah Dessen

And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest. — Sarah Dessen

She'd wanted so much for me: the moon and more. But maybe, right now, the moon was enough. — Sarah Dessen

But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future. — Sarah Dessen

I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else. — Sarah Dessen

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed. — Sarah Dessen

I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight. — Sarah Dessen

Isabel had hated me on sight, and not because I was fat. Just because she could. — Sarah Dessen

Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well. — Sarah Dessen

I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE. — Sarah Dessen

Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment. — Sarah Dessen

But sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something. You know? — Sarah Dessen

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. — Sarah Dessen

What if even if I had told, or did tell, nobody believed me? Or even worse, blamed me for it? — Sarah Dessen

I'm all about shrimpburgers, reading, and going to the beach. — Sarah Dessen

Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great. — Sarah Dessen

I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing. — Sarah Dessen

There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised? — Sarah Dessen