Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.
Sarah Dessen
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Close
Lucky
Rest
Someone
Shoulder
Take
Shoulders
Enough
Bear
Much
Bears
Weight
More quotes by 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
Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.
Sarah Dessen
When you've never gotten love from someone, you don't know what it might look like if it ever does appear. You look for it in everything: any bright light overhead could be a star.
Sarah Dessen
Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship.
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
I turned and looked into the gas station, where Wes was now paying, as the man who'd driven us looked on. That's too bad, I said. It's okay, though, she assured me. Someday I'll show you an extraordinary boy, Macy. They do exist. You just have to believe me. Don't worry, I said. I do.
Sarah Dessen
I've given lots of people chances. But there's only so much faith you can have in people.
Sarah Dessen
How do you even begin to return to someone, much less convince them to do the same for you? I had no idea. More than ever, though, right then I had to believe the answer would just come to me.
Sarah Dessen
When I was in high school, I was always really envious of those girls who seemed to have everything: the perfect hair, perfect clothes, perfect boyfriend, perfect life. It wasn't until I was older that I realized that nobody's life is perfect, and that those girls probably had a lot of the same problems I did.
Sarah Dessen
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.
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
It is kind of hard to hold a lot in. But for me… it’s sometimes even harder to let it out.
Sarah Dessen
The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry for him already. This was a screwed-up place he'd just come into. But he didn't have to know that. Not yet, anyway. There in that room, where it was hot and cramped, the world probably still seemed small enough to manage.
Sarah Dessen
Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.
Sarah Dessen
None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.
Sarah Dessen
With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.
Sarah Dessen
In school, writing was the only thing that really came naturally to me, but it wasn't until college that I realized that I could do it for more than just fun.
Sarah Dessen
There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.
Sarah Dessen
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.
Sarah Dessen
Still, there was also was something reassuring about working for Commercial, almost hopeful. Like things that were lost could be found again. As we drove away, I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on.
Sarah Dessen
