Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I've seen what commitment leads to. Going in is the easy part. It's the ending that sucks! -Remy
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
Going
Remy
Sucks
Ending
Leads
Commitment
Seen
Easy
Part
More quotes by 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
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.
Sarah Dessen
You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.
Sarah Dessen
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features were there. but the colors, the zigzags and plaids, the bits and pieces that made up me, Halley, weren't yet in place. Scarlett's vibrant reds and golds helped some, but I was still waiting.
Sarah Dessen
The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.
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
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
It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.
Sarah Dessen
That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.
Sarah Dessen
So finally, I decided that the best response — the safest — was none at all.
Sarah Dessen
But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side
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
You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.
Sarah Dessen
And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.
Sarah Dessen
Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.
Sarah Dessen
You punched him by accident.
Sarah Dessen
Can she be divorced? I asked. And famous for her commercials and ideas? She can be anything, Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. And so can you.
Sarah Dessen
Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.
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
The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.
Sarah Dessen
