1. “If you expect the worst, you’ll never be disappointed.” – Sarah Dessen
2. “The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.” – Sarah Dessen
3. “Nothing had been okay, not for a long time. And every moment that I thought I was getting close, like the one I’d had earlier, seemed to remind the universe that I didn’t deserve that, not yet.” – Sarah Dessen
4. “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.” – Sarah Dessen
5. “Everyone had a forever.” – Sarah Dessen
6. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” – Sarah Dessen
7. “And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.” – Sarah Dessen
8. “You get what you give, but also what you’re willing to take.” – Sarah Dessen
9. “This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn’t like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.” – Sarah Dessen
10. “All I’d ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.” – Sarah Dessen
11. “Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy.” – Sarah Dessen
12. “Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.” – Sarah Dessen
13. “It was just one of those things,” I said, “You know, that just happen. You don’t think or plan. You just do it.” – Sarah Dessen
14. “That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.” – Sarah Dessen
15. “funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story” – Sarah Dessen
16. “Even when words fail me, you never do.” – Sarah Dessen
17. “You’re not a sucker. You’re just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.” – Sarah Dessen
18. “It’s never long distance between friends.” – Sarah Dessen
19. “Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.” – Sarah Dessen
20. “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” – Sarah Dessen
21. “Life’s too short to worry about the little things. Enjoy what you have today, not what you might get tomorrow.” – Sarah Dessen
22. “The bottom line is, what defines you isn’t how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it’s one more. you’re all good.” – Sarah Dessen
23. “You just had to know where to look.” – Sarah Dessen
24. “This true difference in me now: I had these experiences, these tales, more of this life. So maybe it wasn’t the fairy tale. But those stories weren’t real anyway. Mine were.” – Sarah Dessen
25. “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.” – Sarah Dessen
26. “So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.” – Sarah Dessen
27. “As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.” – Sarah Dessen
28. “It’s so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.” – Sarah Dessen
29. “Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.” – Sarah Dessen
30. “Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.” – Sarah Dessen
31. “Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.” – Sarah Dessen
32. “Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie.” – Sarah Dessen
33. “There’s just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.” – Sarah Dessen
34. “Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.” – Sarah Dessen
35. “You didn’t fail. You just opted out. There’s a difference.” – Sarah Dessen
36. “And in that moment, if only for that moment, we were right where we were supposed to be.” – Sarah Dessen
37. “Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.” – Sarah Dessen
38. “I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.” – Sarah Dessen
39. “The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.” – Sarah Dessen
40. “It’s only advice. Ignore it if you want.” – Sarah Dessen
41. “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
42. “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
43. “That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.” – Sarah Dessen
44. “If you have just one person believe in you, you’ll always find your way.” – Sarah Dessen
45. “Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be close.” – Sarah Dessen
46. “You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.” – Sarah Dessen
47. “nothing is guaranteed…. So don’t be afraid. Be alive.” – Sarah Dessen
48. “You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it’ll happen.” – Sarah Dessen
49. “I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I’d practically invented.” – Sarah Dessen
50. “If you’re not getting hurt, you’re not riding hard enough.” – Sarah Dessen
51. “With love like that, you can’t get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it’s there. Better late than never.” – Sarah Dessen
52. “Life is full of screwups. You’re supposed to fail sometimes. It’s a required part of the human existance.” – Sarah Dessen
53. “I always have a goal, even if I keep it to myself. It allows me to keep pushing myself.” – Sarah Dessen
54. “Let’s just start and see what happens.” – Sarah Dessen
55. “Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.” – Sarah Dessen
56. “Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.” – Sarah Dessen
57. “Self respect, Colie. If you don’t have it, the world will walk all over you.” – Sarah Dessen
58. “Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn’t, not at all.” – Sarah Dessen
59. “And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn’t just standing on the cliff, toes poking over, but already in mid-air.” – Sarah Dessen
60. “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
61. “I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we’d all be hanging from nooses. Right?” – Sarah Dessen
62. “It’s funny how someone’s perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.” – Sarah Dessen
63. “The thing is I’m a great believer in the perfect moment. They don’t come around that often.” – Sarah Dessen
64. “Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.” – Sarah Dessen
65. “I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.” – Sarah Dessen
66. “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.” – Sarah Dessen
67. “Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.” – Sarah Dessen
68. “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
69. “I knew that it wouldn’t last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.” – Sarah Dessen
70. “Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone’s bad qualities because they somehow complete you.” – Sarah Dessen
71. “How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. ‘Perfect.” – Sarah Dessen
72. “Look, the point is there’s no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you’re left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.” – Sarah Dessen
73. “Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.” – Sarah Dessen
74. “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
75. “You need demarcation.” “Demarcation?” I asked. “It means a clear separation between two things,” he told me. “A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity.” – Sarah Dessen
76. “It’s hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.” – Sarah Dessen
77. “Hey, and for what it’s worth? Friends don’t leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.” – Sarah Dessen
78. “We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.” – Sarah Dessen
79. “Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.” – Sarah Dessen
80. “Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.” – Sarah Dessen
81. “Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in.” – Sarah Dessen
82. “In the end, though, maybe it’s not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.” – Sarah Dessen
83. “People don’t change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less.” – Sarah Dessen
84. “The truth about forever is that it is happening right now.” – Sarah Dessen
85. “It’s hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.” – Sarah Dessen
86. “You know, when it works, love is amazing. It’s not overrated.” – Sarah Dessen
87. “The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.” – Sarah Dessen
88. “What defines you isn’t how many times you crash but the number of times you get back.” – Sarah Dessen
89. “Harder to get in than out, like so little else.” – Sarah Dessen
90. “There has to be a mi68. “I always have a goal, even if I keep it to myself. It allows me to keep pushing myself.” – Sarah Dessen
91. “If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the last few months, it’s that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.” – Sarah Dessen
92. “Isn’t that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all.” – Sarah Dessen
93. “But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn’t find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.” – Sarah Dessen
94. “Too many locks, not enough keys.” – Sarah Dessen
95. “Life’s too short to worry about the little things. Enjoy what you have today, not what you might get tomorrow” – Sarah Dessen
96. “Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.” – Sarah Dessen
97. “No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don’t pay attention to the past, you’ll never understand the future. It’s all linked together.” – Sarah Dessen
98. “Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.” – Sarah Dessen
99. “Some things don’t last forever, but some things do.” – Sarah Dessen
100. “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.” – Sarah Dessen
101. “Oh darling, don’t be bitter. It’s the first instinct of the weak.” – Sarah Dessen
102. “But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.” – Sarah Dessen
103. “Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.” – Sarah Dessen
104. “Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn’t make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you’re doing it out of fear.” – Sarah Dessen
105. “You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.” – Sarah Dessen
106. “He was the closest thing I’d ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn’t count. You were either in, or you weren’t.” – Sarah Dessen
107. “May you always have the answers to each other’s most important questions.” – Sarah Dessen
108. “You can’t always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.” – Sarah Dessen
109. “Embrace the messy and when things do come together just right, you’ll always be pleasantly surprised.” – Sarah Dessen
110. “It’s a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it’s over, and you’re sinking.” – Sarah Dessen
111. “Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.” – Sarah Dessen
112. “Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.” – Sarah Dessen
113. “It’s all in the view. That’s what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you’d better make every second count.” – Sarah Dessen
114. “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
115. “Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.” – Sarah Dessen
116. “Don’t think or judge, just listen.” – Sarah Dessen
117. “The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote” – Sarah Dessen
118. “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” – Sarah Dessen
119. “What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn’t see you as a project, but a prize. you know?” – Sarah Dessen
120. “Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.” – Sarah Dessen
121. “You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core.” – Sarah Dessen
122. “It’s still a memory worth having, even if it’s not exactly what you imagined” – Sarah Dessen
123. “It’s funny how one summer can change everything.” – Sarah Dessen
124. “Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It’s a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.” – Sarah Dessen
125. “but accepting help doesn‟t have to mean giving up control.” – Sarah Dessen
126. “Silence is so freaking loud.” – Sarah Dessen
127. “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.” – Sarah Dessen