Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. Lock & Key

- Sarah Dessen, Lock & Key

Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-- good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.

- Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key 

But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.

- Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

But sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something. You know?

- Sarah Dessen, Lock & Key

The thing is, it's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do-need to do-more than anything.  It can kind of scare the crap out of you.  

- Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better l earn to know the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what its saying.

- Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

This moment was real too, even if you couldn't tell at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look, to tell.

- Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

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, Just Listen 

That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly though, things weren't so clear. The dark was still a mystery, something hidden, something to be scared of, but I'd come to fear the light, too. It was where everything was revealed, or seemed to be. Eyes closed, I saw only the blackness, reminding me ofthis one thing, the most deep of my secrets; eyes open, there was only the world that didn't know it, bright, inescapable, and somehow, still there.

- Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, 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. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it.

- Sarah Dessen,  Just Listen

I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.  

- Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

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

- Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.

- Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever 

The chances we take, knowing no better, to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in, protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.

- Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.

- Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forver

But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance... Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.

- Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

Maybe I would have protected my heart from some things, but would that really have been better? To hold myself apart because I was too scared that something might not be forever.

- Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby 

Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd be resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big way, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.

- Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they came close, as if you might just break free of whatever was holding you and throw yourself at them with enough force to easily overwhelm you both.

- Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby 

Love is an excuse to put with the stuff that you shouldn't. That's how it gets you. It throws off the scales so that things that should weigh heavily don't seem to. It's a crock. A trap.

- Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know. 

- Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

If what you're asking is how I debated whether or not to love her the answer is I didn't. Not at all. It just happened. I didn't ever question it; by the time I realized what was happening, it was already done.

- Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

I knew that there were no guarentees. No way of knowing what came next for me, for him, or anybody. 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 the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there...

- Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

And love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you

- Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

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.

- Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
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