Quote

We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

Sarah Dessen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Ends
Even
Hurting
Much
Kinds
Kind
Meant
Really
Loved
Love
Willing
People
Hurt
Maybe

More quotes by Sarah Dessen

Image
What, I said, is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?
Sarah Dessen
Image
Again, it occurred to me how weird it was to be permanent in a place that to everyone else was only temporary. Like I could never be sure if they were the ones who weren't real, or if I was.
Sarah Dessen
Image
It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.
Sarah Dessen
Image
You just walk over there and into the office and say, 'Hey, be my prom date,' he said. It's that simple.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Okay, he said. He took a breath. What would you do, if you could do anything? I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. This. I said. And then I kissed him.
Sarah Dessen
Image
All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.
Sarah Dessen
Image
With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.
Sarah Dessen
Image
When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.
Sarah Dessen
Image
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
Image
It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.
Sarah Dessen
Image
That's the thing about someone who rarely gets upset: when they do, you notice.
Sarah Dessen
Image
funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story
Sarah Dessen
Image
Don't think or judge, just listen.
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
Obviously it won't all run smoothly. But it's important to awknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn fromt them.
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 knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.
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