Quote

Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.

Sarah Dessen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Happened
Liked
Perfect
Saws
Found
Exist
Persons
Failing
Person
Circumstances
Different
Boys
Failings
Would
Knew
Strengths
World
Maybe
Flaws

More quotes by Sarah Dessen

Image
Maybe I'd just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing
Sarah Dessen
Image
Family isnt about blood relationships, its about the meaning behind them. I relize now that sharing chromosoms is not the only way to having a family, its about the friendship behind it.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Silence is so freaking loud
Sarah Dessen
Image
And don't change for a guy, ever, Leah added. If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.
Sarah Dessen
Image
But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.
Sarah Dessen
Image
The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.
Sarah Dessen
Image
its been a long night aren't they all?
Sarah Dessen
Image
This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am the shade of gray, the glass half empty or full, depending on your view. In my life, there has been little that I have done first or better than the one preceding or following me. Of all of us, though, I am the only one who has been broken.
Sarah Dessen
Image
See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Mayonnaise is a lot like men, it can make everything much better, adding flavor and ease to your life. Or, it can just be sticky and gross and make you nauseous- Keeping the Moon
Sarah Dessen
Image
I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.
Sarah Dessen
Image
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
Image
My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.
Sarah Dessen
Image
But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.
Sarah Dessen
Image
When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.
Sarah Dessen
Image
The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.
Sarah Dessen
Image
It is kind of hard to hold a lot in. But for me… it’s sometimes even harder to let it out.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.
Sarah Dessen