Sarah Dessen quotes
Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts 
Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of human existence. 
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong. 
If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed. 
There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand. 
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. 
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. 
But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right. 
The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever. 
But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all. 
You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs. Sarah Dessen Short quotes ⇑
Short Quotes
You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it. 
All Sarah Dessen quotes ⇑
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.
Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside
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.
Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.
Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble
Only a weak person needs someone else around all the time.
It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.
I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.
Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. no matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment.
I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.
I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.
for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.
If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.