Quote

How fast were you? Wes asked me. I said, Not that fast. You mean you couldn't... fly? he said, smiling at 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
Fast
Couldn
Asked
Mean
Smiling

More quotes by Sarah Dessen

Image
In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Sarah Dessen
Image
But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.
Sarah Dessen
Image
So much had happened that morning. Yet it was this image, this moment, that i kept going back to hours later, after we'd made it safely to the walkway and gone our separate ways to classes. How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if i fell, at least i wouldn't do it alone.
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
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
It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.
Sarah Dessen
Image
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
Image
No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.
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
I've seen what commitment leads to. Going in is the easy part. It's the ending that sucks! -Remy
Sarah Dessen
Image
There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee.
Sarah Dessen
Image
This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam bending back from the glass, rubbing his arm. Pull open, Maggie called out. As Leah rolled her eyes, she said, He never remembers. It's so weird.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it
Sarah Dessen
Image
The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down so easy. She'd been through too much, between my siters-I could not add to the weight. So instead, I did my best to balance it out, bit by bit, word by word, story by story, even if none of them were true.
Sarah Dessen
Image
If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.
Sarah Dessen
Image
You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole blonde cool and collected perfect smart thing going on. You're the boy all the girls want to rebel with. You, are the unattainable girl in homeroom who never gives a guy the time of day.
Sarah Dessen
Image
You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Let's just start and see what happens.
Sarah Dessen