Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich.
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
Quickly
Loaf
Bread
Nearby
Fronts
Grabbing
Front
Sandwich
Approach
Sandwiches
Heard
Struck
Desire
Sudden
Make
Holding
Leaped
More quotes by Sarah Dessen
But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected my heart from some things, but would that really have been better? To hold myself apart because I was too scared that something might no be forever?
Sarah Dessen
I just do the best I can under the circumstances.
Sarah Dessen
In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.
Sarah Dessen
I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.
Sarah Dessen
No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.
Sarah Dessen
Okay. Enough. I got out of the closet, brushing myself off, then turned around to face her. This is happening. So you need to go downstairs, face your fears, and make the best of it, and everything will be okay. She narrowed her eyes at me. When did you suddenly become so positive? Just get out of there.
Sarah Dessen
He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.
Sarah Dessen
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 all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.
Sarah Dessen
Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. It's a start, I said.
Sarah Dessen
Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.
Sarah Dessen
Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.
Sarah Dessen
I bet you can't eat ten bananas! I bet you're right.
Sarah Dessen
All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.
Sarah Dessen
It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.
Sarah Dessen
How it seemed like you could see everything, but certain things were blocked out, hidden.
Sarah Dessen
You can't act like you care about someone but not let them care about you.
Sarah Dessen
After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.
Sarah Dessen
You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.
Sarah Dessen
He wasn't what I'd thought he was maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.
Sarah Dessen
