Quote

I wasn’t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn’t that I wasn’t right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn’t right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things didn’t come easy for, someone like me.

Sarah Dessen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Even
Ready
Things
Differences
Maybe
Think
Easy
Thinking
Didn
Like
Someone
Macon
Come
Difference
Right
Wasn

More quotes by Sarah Dessen

Image
one word could change the whole world
Sarah Dessen
Image
There's this other half of him I don't know of, it's like he is trying to keep it a secret... if he would just let me inside so I can help.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I was so scared about being discovered, but nobody came. Nobody heard. In my own ears, though, my sobs sounded primal and scary, like something I would have turned off if I'd been able to.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Editing is hard but nowhere NEAR as tough as facing that blank page and blinking cursor each day. You're all alone and no one else can do it. At least with editing you have someone in the trench with you.
Sarah Dessen
Image
It’s never something huge that changes the everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you’re busy focusing on the big picture.
Sarah Dessen
Image
No, no, no to Tallyho.
Sarah Dessen
Image
The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I spent a lot of time looking at that picture. Wondering what I’d think of that girl, if I was someone else, seeing how easily she sits in her boyfriend’s lap, laughing, with his arms around her. I would have thought her life was perfect, the way I once thought Cass’s was. It was too easy, I was learning, to just assume things.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between.
Sarah Dessen
Image
He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in, or you weren't.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.
Sarah Dessen
Image
This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.
Sarah Dessen
Image
...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.
Sarah Dessen