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“Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.”
― Sarah Dessen, That Summer

“Somewhere along the way, I started to believe it myself. I think that being brave and self confident doesn’t necessarily start inside, honey. It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

“I felt something catch in my throat, a sudden surge of sadness that caught me unaware, almost taking my breath away. That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of something being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“But this, too, wasn’t true. Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so dammed hard.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“I just stood there, looking at her. My head was spinning, my mouth dry, and all I could think about was that I wanted to go someplace safe, someplace I could be alone and okay, and that this was impossible. My old life had changed and my new one was still in progress, altering by the second. There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“It's never long distance between friends.”
― Sarah Dessen

“Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?" I asked him.
He looked at me and then said, "You're here, aren't you?”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

“Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.”
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

“But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features were there. but the colors, the zigzags and plaids, the bits and pieces that made up me, Halley, weren't yet in place. Scarlett's vibrant reds and golds helped some, but I was still waiting.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“There comes a point when things are undeniable and can't be hidden any longer. Even from yourself.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.”
― Sarah Dessen, Dreamland

“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, Someone Like You

“It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.”
― Sarah Dessen

“We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.”
― Sarah Dessen

“A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.”
― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

“Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.”
― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

“funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me. And again I felt that emptiness rise up, but pushed it away. Still, I lingered there, in the doorway, memorizing the noise. The moment. Tucking it away out of sight, to be remembered when I needed it most.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on. maybe it had seen places you never had, been rerouted and passed through so many strange hands, but still somehow found its way back to you, all before the day even began. ”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.”
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

“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, The Truth About Forever

“It's OK not to be OK.”
― Lindsey Kelk, I Heart New York

“I wasn't in love with Simon any more. I hadn't been in love with Simon for a long time. I was in love with not being on my own, with having someone there at the end of the day and now I knew I didn't need that. My heart was not broken over him: it was breaking for the things I had wanted from him. And I didn't want them any more.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Single Girl's To-Do List