Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Love
Surprising
Like
Part
Mean
Something
Really
Way
Good
Always

More quotes by Sarah Dessen

Image
Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I seriously doubt that the Santa police do an underwear check. -Cora
Sarah Dessen
Image
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
Image
An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.
Sarah Dessen
Image
So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.
Sarah Dessen
Image
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
Image
When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.
Sarah Dessen
Image
We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone's eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves.
Sarah Dessen
Image
My point is you're different here. Hollis I've only been here for a month. A lot can happen in a month he replied. Shoot in two weeks I met my future wife changed my entire life's trajectory and bought my first tie. You bought a tie I asked. Because honestly this was the most shocking part.
Sarah Dessen
Image
You know, I think I knew you for about three weeks before I ever really saw you smile. And then one day, Morgan said something and you laughed, and I remember thinking it was really cool because it meant something. You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.
Sarah Dessen
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.
Sarah Dessen
Image
We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.
Sarah Dessen
Image
It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.
Sarah Dessen
Image
It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.
Sarah Dessen