Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble
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
Feel
Bits
Feels
Trouble
Every
Perfect
Time
Littles
Anything
Little
Regret
Everything
Beginning
Right
Especially
More quotes by Sarah Dessen
The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.
Sarah Dessen
During the long stretches of quiet two-lane highway, with the sun setting in the distance, it was somehow easier to say things aloud, and regardless of what was said, we just kept moving toward that horizon.
Sarah Dessen
I knew that it wouldn’t last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.
Sarah Dessen
And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.
Sarah Dessen
Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once.
Sarah Dessen
But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it. -Eli
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
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.
Sarah Dessen
In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.
Sarah Dessen
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
Sarah Dessen
It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.
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 knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.
Sarah Dessen
So finally, I decided that the best response — the safest — was none at all.
Sarah Dessen
So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.
Sarah Dessen
Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.
Sarah Dessen
I took in a breath. What's the one thing you'd do, I asked. if you could do anything? Pass, he said. For a second I was sure I'd heard wrong. What? He cleared his throat. I said, I pass. Why? He turned his head and looked at me. Because. Because why? Because I just do.
Sarah Dessen
You can't act like you care about someone but not let them care about you.
Sarah Dessen
It was just one of those things, I said, You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.
Sarah Dessen
But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.
Sarah Dessen
