Sarah Dessen

I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.

— Sarah Dessen

I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.

— Sarah Dessen

Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative."

— Sarah Dessen

But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.

— Sarah Dessen

If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.

— Sarah Dessen

The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

— Sarah Dessen

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

— Sarah Dessen

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

— Sarah Dessen

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.

— Sarah Dessen

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

— Sarah Dessen

But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.

— Sarah Dessen

But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

— Sarah Dessen

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.

— Sarah Dessen

That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone 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 future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.

— Sarah Dessen

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

— Sarah Dessen

Macy: “In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.

— Sarah Dessen

Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

— Sarah Dessen

Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

— Sarah Dessen

You said the other day life was long,' I shot back. 'Which is it?'

— Sarah Dessen

Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose.

— Sarah Dessen

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

— Sarah Dessen

It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder -if not impossible- to lose.

— Sarah Dessen

What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.

— Sarah Dessen

Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.

— Sarah Dessen

The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

— Sarah Dessen

So you're always honest," I said.

— Sarah Dessen