Sarah Dessen

"Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time. "

Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

Sarah Dessen

"What is family other than the people who have claimed you? In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they are the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. Friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers, none perfect, but you shouldn't expect them to be. You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to... take what each can give you and build your world from it."

Sarah Dessen

On Friendship

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

Jane Austen

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

Marlene Dietrich

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

Donna Roberts

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."

Sarah Dessen

"It takes much bravery to stand up to our enemies but we need as much bravery to stand up to our friends."

J.K. Rowling

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."

Henri J.M. Nouwen

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

Helen Keller

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

J.R.R. Tolkien

Sarah Dessen

"Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there."

"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

Sarah Dessen

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens, accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment"

Sarah Dessen

Sarah Dessen

"I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.
"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