Sarah Dessen
I don't lie." "You don't lie," I repeated. "That's what I said." "Ever." "Nope." Sure you don't, I thought.Collection: Lying
"So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I guess." "I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways." "How'd you mean it, then?" "I just...I don't always say what I feel." "Why not?" "Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. "Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."Collection: Hurt
Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.Collection: Inspirational
Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.Collection: Love
With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.Collection: Matter
You just had to know where to look.Collection: Looks
nothing is guaranteed.... So don't be afraid. Be alive.Collection: Alive
Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?Collection: Trying
Everyone had a forever.Collection: Forever
All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.Collection: Lucky
Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.Collection: Inspirational
Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.Collection: Ugly Things
After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.Collection: Missing
I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.Collection: Should Have
If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your wayCollection: Believe
There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee.Collection: Coffee
I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.Collection: Love
The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my face in a thousand expressions, and the warmth of a baby's kick beneath my hand. I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.Collection: Girl
Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. And that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. In the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.Collection: Love
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. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.Collection: Hurt
The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a voteCollection: Love
funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad storyCollection: Beautiful
This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.Collection: Waiting
Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?Collection: Knows
Very quietly, I heard a voice in my ear.It said, in a weird, cheesy, right-out-of-one-of-my-mother's-novels way, "Ah. Wemeet again." I turned my head, just slightly, and right there, practically on top of me, was theguy from the car dealership. He was wearing a red Mountain Fresh Detergent T-shirt - not just fresh: mountain fresh! - it proclaimed, and was smiling at me. "Oh,God," I said. "No, it's Dexter.Collection: Mother
…It’s not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.Collection: You Choose
If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!Collection: Determination
Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.Collection: Pauses
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.Collection: Father
I have boobs!" Chloe said again, a bit too loudly— she'd already had a couple of mini bottles at the Spot. "My boobs are great, goddammit. You know that? They're fantastic! My boobs are amazing.Collection: Couple
“Well," Isaid finally, knowing he was waiting, “you make me laugh.” He nodded. “And?” “You're pretty good-looking." ""Pretty good-looking? I called you beautiful." "You want to be beautiful?" I asked him. "Are you saying I'm not?"Collection: Beautiful
I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m.Collection: Two
Quiet and incredible. I really envy that.Collection: Envy
So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.Collection: Boys
Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy.Collection: World
Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.Collection: Believe
It's not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.Collection: Liars
You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one.Collection: Kind
She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.Collection: Beautiful
Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad. Macy page 199Collection: Different
Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be close.Collection: Mean
Are you crazy? Flirting with Eli Stock in front of Belissa Norwood, in Belissa Norwood’s house, while eating Belissa Norwood’s cupcakes?Collection: Crazy
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.Collection: Believe
You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.Collection: Should Have
When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.Collection: Needs
Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.Collection: Stupid
Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.Collection: Charming
In Anger Management,' he said,'we had to do all this role-playing stuff. You know, to get used to handling things in a less volatile way.' 'You role-played,' I said, trying to picture this. 'I had to. It was court-ordered.Collection: Trying
So say I’m your mom.' 'What?' I said. 'I’m your mom,' he repeated. 'Now tell me you want to quit modeling.' I could feel myself blushing. 'I can’t do that,' I said. 'Why not?' he asked. 'Is it so hard to believe? You think I’m not a good role-player?' 'No,' I said. 'It’s just–' 'Because I am. Everyone wanted me to be their mother in group.' I just looked at him. 'I just… It’s weird.' 'No, it’s hard. But not impossible. Just try it.' A week earlier, I hadn’t even known what color his eyes were. Now, we were family. At least temporarily.Collection: Mom