Sarah Dessen's quotes (sethmessenger.fr - Some short news to get away from it all).

#41788
I felt something get stuck in my throat, cutting my breath. I had to get used to it. This idea that someone is no longer there, you never get used to it.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41789
_D agree," he said, taking his breath. What would you do if you could do what you wanted? I took a step towards him. _Ca, I answered, and I kissed him. Kissed. There, in the middle of the street, while the world was conducting its business around us. Behind me, Jason waited for an explanation, my sister continued to lecture, and the angel, ready to fly away, kept her eyes raised to the sky. As for me, I felt that I had finally taken the right path. The one who started here, at that very moment, with Tim, with a kiss that took my breath and gave it back to me, leaving me full of life more than ever.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41796
You can't close your heart like a tap. You have to go back to the source and drip it out. It takes time.

Sarah Dessen
(Someone like you)

#41797
I made a quick decision, of the ones you make in a life-or-death situation. We weren't there, it's true, but I didn't think about it, I acted urgently: I dipped my hand in the beans. I took a good handful and I threw it on Eliot without hesitation. The beans splashed on his face and on his head, a few landed on the tip of his shoes. I've heard the others completely tetanus suspend their suflle, it may seem incredible but it's true! I was staring only at Eliot, who blinked and wiped his nose. _Oh, he tells me. You'll see what you're going to see!

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41798
- Tristan is harmful to you. As if Tristan had been a food - not a green pepper or an orange, but a calorie and highly toxic Bounty.

Sarah Dessen
(Someone like you)

#41799
-Keeping people at bay and depriving themselves of love doesn't make you strong. On the contrary. Because it's fear. -Afraid of what? -To take a risk. The risk of things happening, the risk of getting carried away... But the risk is life. Refusing to try, out of fear, is a waste. Okay I made mistakes, a lot even, but I have no regrets. Because at least I didn't sit on the side of the road wondering what living means.

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41800
Someone who grabbed my elbows with his hands, and restored my balance. His hands brought a feeling of freshness to my burning skin, and that presence behind me was like a solid thing, a wall where I could be supported and that would not give way. I turned my head. It was Tim.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41801
A song instantly takes you back to a moment, to a place, to a person. No matter if you or the world around you have changed, this song remains the same as the moment you lived.

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41802
No one has one better time in their life. It takes several, each of which is obviously better than the previous one.

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41803
What I meant about eternity is that for each of us, our eternity can end in an hour, or in a hundred years. You can never be sure, so you might as well give importance to every second.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41804
You can't close your heart like a tap. You have to go back to the source and drip it out. It takes time.

Sarah Dessen
(Someone like you)

#41805
She was strong, as strong as I was weak. She fell, she got hurt, she got up. She lived. And despite her failures, she continued to believe. Maybe next time would be the right one. Or maybe not. But by refusing to play, we were condemned to never know.

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41806
Stories so beautiful or so long they always end with the fine word.

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41807
Someone had to have fun with the sound button, because the volume was getting louder and louder. Assaulted by the remix of a Barbra Streisand hit, I crossed my legs, closed my eyes and nervously clung to the armrests of the chair. A few more weeks, I thought. A few weeks, and I won't be here. At that very moment, someone hit my chair. My elbow hit the wall violently, just where it hurts, and an electric shock went through my arm. It was too much taste. I was. Very upset. It's curious how sometimes it only takes a simple scramble to make you mad. - Damn it! I cried, ready to unscrew the head of the stupid salesman who allowed himself this kind of familiarity with me. My elbow was still vibrating and I had heat waves in my neck. Very bad sign. Turning my head, I saw that he was not a salesman, but a guy of my age, black and curly hair, wearing a bright orange t-shirt. And that stupid SOURIAIT. "Hi! he exclaimed in a playful voice. All right? -What's your problem? I roar as I rub my elbow. - My problem? "You sent me into the wall, you asshole!" He blinked. - My God, what a language... I stared at him. You, buddy, you really don't fall on the right day...

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41818
"If you want to know what stuff someone is really made of, look at how they act when no one is watching them. That's where he'll show his true nature."

Sarah Dessen
(The rest of the story)

#41819
It's easy to quickly become familiar with near-unknowns, don't you think? It's all the more bizarre that people who supposed to know you well don't know you at all.

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#41820
Because at least I didn't sit on the side of the road wondering what living means.

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41821
- I find it very nice [champagne]! she replied. A bit like drinking thousands of little sparks...

Sarah Dessen
(The rest of the story)

#41822
The one who doesn't bet never loses! "Neither wins," my mother added.

Sarah Dessen
(Once and for all)

#41823
A song immediately brings you back to a moment, a place, a person. No matter if you or the world around you have changed, this song remains the same as the moment you lived.

Sarah Dessen
(Source inconnue)

#41824
"Coup de grace of the 2 o'clock in the morning. The person you can call at 2:00 in the morning, no matter what. Who you can count on. Who will always be there by your side, even if you wake her up, even if it freezes, or even if you have to be released from police custody. That's the maximum on the friendship scale."

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#41825
Love is absolutely unpredictable. Sometimes you hang out with someone for years and then boom! You suddenly see it in a different light. And sometimes it's from the first date, from the first few seconds. That's what makes things great!

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41826
It looked like those upside-down exclamation points placed at the beginning of a sentence in Spanish and whose mere presence augurs something complicated.

Sarah Dessen
(Once and for all)

#41827
"When you think about it, music is unifying, it has incredible strength. People who express differing opinions about everything sometimes have music in common"

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41828
How do you keep living when you know what can happen? The answer is simple: we don't have a choice.

Sarah Dessen
(Never again)

#41829
"Seriously. Don't you ever think you'd better keep your mouth shut?" He thought for a second. I said, "No. As I told you, I don't like liars." "You're not lying, you're just being silent. - Show me the difference! - With one, you are openly cheating. With the other, you keep what you think to yourself. - Yes, but there is always deception. In the second case, you are the one who is cheating. Do we agree? I took a few seconds of reflection while he was swallowing up another pretzel. "I don't know," I whispered. - in fact, being silent is worse than lying when you think about it. First of all, you have to tell the truth to yourself. If you can't trust yourself, who will you count on?"

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41836
- Truth hurts sometimes. - Lies too.

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41837
By refusing to play, we were condemned to never know.

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41838
_C's an ambulance," Delia said in a neutral tone, as if saying it out loud would allow her to get to know the idea. _Une "old" ambulance corrected Greg. With a story. Character. With... _Ni resumption, nor exchange, interrupted Tim.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41842
Love to the point of not controlling yourself as you approach the one you love, being ready to break all the chains, throwing yourself on the other and taking it in a whirlwind capable of overwhelm everything.

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41843
When you're good with someone, you don't need to talk.

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#41844
-Ah women ... sighed Jean-Michel. Damien wiped his face with the back of his hand and fixed the tar. Women. Indeed, dear lord, they are confusing, too. Ah, the beautiful Julie!" he added eloquently. I felt the red rise to my cheeks, while Lisa, at the front, carried her hand to her mouth. "Beautiful Julie," said Damien, "considered that I was not a valid risk. "Really. -It is true that I am a thug. A scoundrel. A musician. I would have brought him nothing but poverty, shame and bruises on his shins... She was right to leave. Jean-Michel pretended to stick a dagger in his chest. "How cruel these words are, my lord! "Hourrah," agreed Damien. "Hourrah," Jean-Michel repeated. Oh, really.

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41845
Parents are complicated: we hate them or we love them, sometimes both at the same time... But when you have only one, it's a bit like he or she ends up taking an even more essential place - primordial.

Sarah Dessen
(The rest of the story)

#41846
"-Julie... -Yeah? - If you want to know if I wondered whether or not I wanted to fall in love with her, the answer is no. Not at all. It just happened. I didn't ask myself any questions. By the time I understood what was going on, it was already too late. I was frozen on the second step. - I don't understand. - What don't you understand? - Everything. He shrugged, turned off the last light of the kitchen, and then came close to me as he went up the stairs. - Don't worry about it. One day you'll understand."

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41848
Some like to give their sadness to the curious, but many prefer to cry out of sight.

Sarah Dessen
(Once and for all)

#41849
But everyone is able to start something: the beginnings are always full of promise and full of hope...

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#41850
Once you love something, you love it for life, one way or another. That's the way it is. It's part of who you are. Better of you.

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#41851
I only had one half of Ben, and the other half was sorely missed.

Sarah Dessen
(You who have the key...)

#41852
The dead aren't the only ones disappearing. Those who also remain can pass out in the air without a trace if the mourning is too heavy.

Sarah Dessen
(Once and for all)

#41853
We marry for love, and to love is to be tolerant....

Sarah Dessen
(Once and for all)

#41854
"Diese" I had no illusions about love. he would come, leave, leave wounds, or leave no. P.76

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41855
When my father died I had the feeling that nothing was stable anymore, you understand? From that moment on, doing things best was a reassuring idea. Something to hold on to. Yes, I thought if I could do everything right, then I would be protected. What made things harder, I think, was that after my father died, my mother started freaking out. She's made all her stuff go away. She threw almost everything away. In a way, it was as if he had never been there.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41856
- And all that pink... It's like a giant uterus!

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41857
You can decide your life, or life can decide for you. So was the choice really so simple?

Sarah Dessen
(The rest of the story)

#41858
His loved ones are expected to behave in the same way. When they surprise us - for better or for worse - it is very destabilizing.

Sarah Dessen
(Never again)

#41859
I was beginning to think that it was better not to get too attached to anything. All you had to do was turn your back, and it was vanishing. Without warning.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41860
Throughout my life, I had always seen my parents in the same, immutable way. One strong, the other weak. One frightened, the other brave. I now understood that the absolute does not exist, neither in life nor in people. As Phil said, you had to take the events day by day. The goal was to wear what we were capable of and hopefully someone close would be there to help you take the rest.

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41861
This is how I approached life now: I took the good when it presented itself, the bad in the same way knowing that everything passed with time.

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41862
I think you've always believed in love in your heart

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41863
"Diese" It's like riding a bike, if you start thinking, you realize that it's a very complicated phenomenon. So you just have to press the pedals and not deal with the mechanics. It works on its own. P.260

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41864
Surfing and eating sushi? At the same time?

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41865
I rang the bell. Then I placed myself neither too close nor too far from the door, and I put a melon slice smile on my lips.

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41866
The beginnings are always full of promise and full of hope... Just what I liked. But I wanted more and more to find out what was happening in the end.

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#41867
E-mails always start the same way. Hi Audren!! It was the two exclamation points that made me squint. My mother reportedly called them "verbose, excessive and talkative". I found them simply bulky. Inflating like Heidi. Heidi, my mother-in-law.

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41868
- Listen, Macy. We both know that life is short. Too short to lose a second with someone who doesn't appreciate you at your true value. "The other day," I replied, "you said that life was long. So, is it one or the other? "Both," she shrugns. It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like eternity, it's constantly changing. "You can't be a thing and its opposite," I said. That's impossible. "No," she replied, squeezing my hand, "what is impossible is to tell ourselves all the time that life is anything but changing." Look, when I was in the hospital, right after my accident, they thought I was going to die. I was really screwed up, the whole thing, what. "Mmm-hmm," said Monica, looking at her sister. "At that moment," continued Kristy, nodding his head, "life is short, literally." But now that I'm getting better, it seems so long that I have to look far, far ahead of me to begin to see the end of it. It's all in the point of view, Macy's is what I meant about eternity. For each of us, our eternity can end in an hour, or a hundred years. You can never be sure, so you might as well give importance every second. Monica, who was lighting a new cigarette, nodded. "Mmm-hmm," she said again. "What you have to decide," Kristy tells me, leaning forward, "is how you want to live your life. If your eternity stopped tomorrow, would you want it to have looked like this? I thought I'd already made that choice. I had just spent the last eighteen months with Jason, adapting my life to his own, trying to do everything I could to secure a place in his perfect world, where everything made sense. But it didn't work. "Look," said Kristy, "the truth is that nothing is certain." You know that better than anyone. She looked me in the back of her eyes, making sure I understood her. That was the case. - So don't be afraid. Start living. Only I could not imagine that we could live without worrying about the dangers that surround us. Especially when the greatest fear we could have had already come true. "It's the same thing," I said. What's going on? - Be afraid and be alive. "No," she said slowly, "and she seemed conscious of speaking a language that I could not understand at the outset, a language whose words themselves, not to mention the ideas they conveyed, were unknown to me. No, Macy. It is not the same thing.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41869
If you can't trust yourself, who will you count on?

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41870
You gave me a potato, sang a voice, followed by a new burst of laughter. But I wanted a kumquat... I asked you for love... you told me... Hey! But that's my white cheese!

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41871
Because he's a guy, Chloe says. And guys don't get attached, guys never give themselves completely and guys lie. That's why you have to be very suspicious, never believe them and keep them at bay as much as possible.

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41872
But in life, not everything is perfect. Sometimes you have to make your own story. Give fate a little boost, you know?

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41873
The past is always the past... No matter how hard you try to forget him, he always remembers you, whether you like it or not.

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#41874
I didn't care. Because, friends or not, at school I was like a fish in the water: learning was running away, with the possibility of making myself thousands of lives by proxy.

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41875
In fact, I never had the opportunity, because duffel throwers and bike dingoes did not attend experimental private schools with accelerated school programs for which my parents had a very big weakness.

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41876
Before I moved to high school, I didn't realize how much our friendship depended on the school we attended.

Sarah Dessen
(Never again)

#41877
Because, I said, while a breeze was blowing on us, sometimes things happen. Things we didn't expect.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41878
You don't often get a second chance in life. If you can't change your past, change your future.

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41879
-It's a hell of a pressure to be perfect, don't you think?

Sarah Dessen
(At the end of the dream)

#41880
(...) she told me that writing is like giving life; if you remember how terrible it was, you don't have the courage to do it again.

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41881
You think you're rock solid because you never talk about Dad. But anyone can do the ostrich. Confronting problems, wanting to solve them, is what makes you stronger.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41882
Maybe I was doing something stupid. But I wasn't going to break my momentum. I didn't have the science infused, but I was sure of one thing: if the rest of my life were to look like this, then it was better to change lanes right away.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41883
I had no illusions about love. He would come, leave, leave the wounds, or leave none. We are not meant to spend our lives with the same person, no matter what the songs say.

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41884
Why do you always encounter resistance in those around you when you are convinced that you are right and true? On the contrary, this should smooth out the difficulties and round the corners. But we had to fight against the tides to make the case that we were in agreement with ourselves. With his confidence. Pure. Integrates.

Sarah Dessen
(Someone like you)

#41885
Then I can't say how it happened: was it me who took the first step, or him? What I do know is that we did not meet halfway. But for such a small distance, it's not worth quibbling. And maybe it's not very important, after all. The only important thing is that he was there.

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41886
In life, you cannot be forced to make certain choices, even if you say it is for your own good.

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#41887
- Are you crazy or what? Flirting with Eliot Stock under Belissa Norwood's nose at Belissa Norwood's, eating Belissa Norwook's cupcakes?

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41888
I'm really glad you're not a criminal or a whore!

Sarah Dessen
(You who have the key...)

#41889
Cora had been a part of my life, she had come out of it, end of the story.

Sarah Dessen
(You who have the key...)

#41890
She was right. Obviously. Mom was always right.

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41891
Love is not measured by the time we spent together, but at the importance of the moments we shared. In life, some seem as light as a caress, while others crush us with all their weight.

Sarah Dessen
(Once and for all)

#41892
The dead aren't the only ones disappearing. Those who also remain can pass out in the air without a trace if the mourning is too heavy.

Sarah Dessen
(Once and for all)

#41893
But something had changed in me. what? I didn't know that yet. All I knew was that I felt alive for the first time since I was sixteen. I had no idea where Cass was, but she had spoken to me. My sister had come out of the land of dreams to come to meet me, while, standing on my pyramid, half asleep, half staggering in this world in a state of vigil, I stared at the bright and shining stars.

Sarah Dessen
(At the end of the dream)

#41894
A song instantly takes you back to a moment, to a place, to a person. No matter if you or the world around you have changed, this song remains the same as the moment you lived.

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41895
When you think about it, music is unifying, it has incredible strength. People who express differing opinions about everything sometimes have music in common. I nodded, not sure what to say to him. "In addition," he continued, telling me that he did not expect a response from me, music is an absolute constant. That's why she and we have an almost visceral bond, you know? A song instantly takes you back to a moment, to a place, to a person. No matter if you or the world around you have changed, this song remains the same as the moment you lived. Which is amazing when you think about it. Stunning, indeed. Like this conversation, the opposite of anything I would have imagined.

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41896
Don't think, don't judge, just listen...

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41897
In life, not everything is perfect. Sometimes you have to make your own story. Give fate a little boost.

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41898
Live, for God's sake! You'll always have time for the rest.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41899
My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones... you might as well hold onto them.

Sarah Dessen
(You who have the key...)

#41900
"What makes the stories alive is knowing that someone will hear them. And will understand them." P.420

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41901
"We must not fear the unknown. Relatives are a greater danger, because their words and thoughts are both terrifying and... true." P.84

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41902
Feelings and action are always linked, one cannot exist without the other.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41903
He laughed, loud enough for the candle to go out. We found ourselves in the dark. "Okay," he said, as I passed his arms around his neck, "you don't have to say it out loud. I know why you like me. He hugged me and drew me to him. "Tell me, then. "It's Animal," he said simply. Perfectly chemical. -Mmmm, possible. -In any case, it doesn't matter... He slipped a hand into my hair. I could not distinguish her face, but her voice, she, sounded clearly to my ear. -The only thing that matters is that you like me.

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41904
-It's like a blank page. No mistakes yet. "She's lucky.

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41909
I often imagine myself as the silhouettes of coloring albums: with black outlines and white interior. The base existed, okay, but the colors and patterns, all the little things that would make me become me, just me, were not there yet.

Sarah Dessen
(Someone like you)

#41910
What I'm trying to explain to you is that life isn't always perfect... Sometimes there are chaotic beginnings and regrets, which is quite normal. When you have regrets because you had a choice but you let your chance pass knowingly, then it's a shame.

Sarah Dessen
(You who have the key...)

#41911
If you can't change your past, change your future.

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41912
Passing a sponge on worries and sabotages is useless. Because if on the surface it looks all clean all smooth, behind, it stays. The past is ineffable. It is only when you go deep, in the basement, that you discover who you really are.

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#41913
- Ruby, where is your mother? -I don't know, I don't know. She's gone, that's it.

Sarah Dessen
(You who have the key...)

#41914
Wait it's not nothing, though, a wish. By formulating it, you make it exist, you give it a place in the universe.

Sarah Dessen
(Once and for all)

#41915
Relationships evolve, just like people do. Even when you think you know someone, you never really do.

Sarah Dessen
(Never again)

#41916
And then I began to understand that there was good in all of us. Even the worst scumbag arouses compassion at some point in his life.

Sarah Dessen
(Never again)

#41917
I never expected anything from anyone, but never wished to be surprised.

Sarah Dessen
(Once and for all)

#41918
But if everything was perfect, without any glitches, you'd weary it fast, don't you think? You have to accept a little mess from time to time. Otherwise, you will never be able to appreciate the moments when everything goes well.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41919
Real friends would never have left you alone in the bottom of a wood, Ben concludes. Real friends, they're always there when you need them.

Sarah Dessen
(You who have the key...)

#41920
Love is a bad excuse to put up with things you should never put up with, I retorted, which made Marion laugh. That's how you get caught.

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41921
My sister Cass left home on the morning of my sixteenth birthday, leaving my gift, wrapped in a nice blue paper, in front of my room and a note intended for my parents under the coffee machine.

Sarah Dessen
(At the end of the dream)

#41922
- OK. You're nice, then. - And it's forbidden to be nice? - No, but in general, it means not telling the truth.

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41923
"Whether it's a song, a person, a story, you can't make up your mind from an excerpt, a glance or a chorus." S.196

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41924
I only wanted one thing: to forget. Every time I thought I had succeeded, pieces of the puzzle emerged, like pieces of wood rising to the surface, the last remnants of the shipwrecked boat. A pink suede top, a poem with my first name, a hand in my neck. That's what happens when you try to escape your past. It doesn't just catch up with you, it takes over, it erases the future, the landscape, the sky until you have only one road to follow, the one that crosses it, the only one that can take you home.

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41925
"Some people are moving forward. They cry, grieve, and move on. In any case, that is the impression they give. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, forget about it. Nothing had broken. It was more like... Something had happened. And as with this hole, I try to find a passage, day after day, to circulate around. Respect me remember and, at the same time, move forward. You understand?

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41932
"Diese" Love is a bad excuse to put up with things you should never put up with. That's how you get caught. Love deflects the balance: things that should weigh heavily seem light. It's a scam. It's a trap. P.311

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41933
"Diese" The world seems huge when you find yourself surveying it alone. P.285

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41934
"Diese" It inspires as much respect as fear. P.67

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41935
If you really had to kiss toads before I found the prince, I had to be on the right track. Was it really hard to find someone it was nice to talk to? In fact, at this point, I didn't even ask for that. A look, or even a little attention would have sufficed for me.

Sarah Dessen
(Once and for all)

#41936
His loved ones are expected to behave in the same way. When they surprise us - for better or for worse - it is very destabilizing.

Sarah Dessen
(Never again)

#41937
When a course error becomes a habit, something curious happens. From an exceptional event, the problem becomes a permanent threat.

Sarah Dessen
(Never again)

#41938
Love is not measured by the time we spent together, but at the importance of the moments we shared.

Sarah Dessen
(Once and for all)

#41939
Like the lotus coming out of the mud, if you feed your substrate, something beautiful will come out of it.

Sarah Dessen
(Once and for all)

#41940
In a marriage, what matters is not just to see the glass half full or half empty, it is the whole range of options that exist between the two: how much will you see it half full or empty?

Sarah Dessen
(Once and for all)

#41941
At that very moment, I understood what she meant. Marriage, like life, was perhaps not just a series of Great Moments, good or bad. Sharing all these little things, day after day, and feeling accompanied, could consolidate the most fragile of the links.

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41942
There is never, Kristy said in a categoric tone, a place or a moment for true love. It happens by accident, on a heartbeat. In the thrill of the moment.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41943
It's one of those things that happens without you thinking about it. (His voice was surprisingly clear and poised.) You know, without thinking about it in advance. You just do it.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41944
Refusing to try, out of fear, is a waste.

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41945
I don't like complications. If something doesn't work, we have to move on, period.

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#41946
No, she's not well. God, you say that all the time but it's not true.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41947
Whatever happens, I'll always remember Tim. Now it was part of that story, part of my story as well.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41948
Most people couldn't have gotten through this, you know?

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41949
Wouldn't we believe at times that the world is just a huge slope, that we have to go back up all the time?

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41950
"We're recovering from his disappointments. Otherwise, we'd all end up at the end of a rope, wouldn't we?" S.163

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41956
And then one day, I gathered all my photos and hung them on the walls, fixed around my mirror, and even on the ceiling of my room. I've been watching every face. I learned them by heart, studying their expressions and their nuances. Now frozen, these eyes looked at me: I could read a whole world in it, but although fixed on me, none looked at me.

Sarah Dessen
(At the end of the dream)

#41957
I was beginning to understand that sometimes you should not fear the unknown. Relatives are a greater danger, because their words and thoughts are both terrifying and... Real.

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41958
When you can't save your skin, or your heart, it's good to be able to at least save face.

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#41959
"David, do you know Mclean?" "We've met before," he replied, without looking away from me

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#41962
From now on, I didn't care what they thought. The idea that I would never be like them was not new to me. No, the novelty was that this idea, curiously, pleased me.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41963
I went back to my car, started the engine and left. It wasn't until I reached the highway that I realized how fleeting our friendship had been. Each of us was going through a period of suspense, but what was suspended was not our respective relationships, it was us.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41964
I didn't answer him. I didn't even look back as we walked through the library to win the exit, a lot of eyes pointed at us. In the end, it made sense to me. Not just the fact of leaving, but also the way I did it. No regrets, without anticipating the future.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41965
Running away, it turned you into a first-class coward. What for? Because if you were the problem, there was a strong chance that the solution would be you too. And the only way to find out was to try!

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41966
- That's what I'm saying: you didn't fail, since you never participated. It makes a difference. He who risks nothing has nothing.

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41967
"Did you like him very much?" "Yes. It was said simply. Like the truth.

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41971
My new mother-in-law was a deeply generous woman, who did not demand more affection from those around her than she was willing to give—and who would never have allowed herself, even worse, to keep everything to herself. It had happened to my mother, when she accompanied my father to a dinner with colleagues, to drink a little too much and to make bad jokes in the middle of the meal.

Sarah Dessen
(The rest of the story)

#41972
"And then, wanting to be happy all the time is not realistic. In real life, it's already a real chance to touch happiness with your finger. »

Sarah Dessen
(Never again)

#41976
But if three years of small jobs in the field of wedding organization had taught me anything, it was that everything, absolutely everything could set fire to the powders - from the mood of the happy couple to the exact shape of the napkins. The sources of potential difficulties were absolutely endless.

Sarah Dessen
(Once and for all)

#41977
Love is not measured by the time we have spent together, but by the importance of the moments we have shared. In life, some seem as light as a caress, while others crush you with all their weight.

Sarah Dessen
(Once and for all)

#41978
It's up to everyone to decide what they want to say or not. Whatever you know, we'll tell you. I may be infuriating, but I'm not a little jerk.

Sarah Dessen
(Once and for all)

#41979
- So much can happen in a month! The proof, I, in two weeks I met my future wife, I changed my lifestyle and I bought my first tie. - A tie? It was the most shocking news of the three.

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41980
"You have not rotten my life," he said after a silence. You only called a friend.

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#41981
People don't change Auden.

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41982
I felt something get stuck in my throat, cutting my breath. I had to get used to it. This idea that someone is no longer there, you never get used to it.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41983
I like flaws, I find that they make people interesting.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41984
Hundreds of times I saw myself, making a step back when they came to me like this: whether it was my mother or my sister, I always disappeared, hiding to cry, putting myself out of their reach to be alone with myself. This time, however, I did not resist. I let Tim pull me towards him, pressing my head on his chest, where I heard his heart beat, a loud and steady beat.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41985
_D agree," he said, taking his breath. What would you do if you could do what you wanted? I took a step towards him. _Ça, I answered, and I kissed him. Kissed. There, in the middle of the street, while the world was conducting its business around us. Behind me, Jason waited for an explanation, my sister continued to lecture, and the angel, ready to fly away, kept her eyes raised to the sky. As for me, I felt that I had finally taken the right path. The one who started here, at that very moment, with Tim, with a kiss that took my breath and gave it back to me, leaving me full of life more than ever.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41990
" - It is true that I suffered. Quite often. But I loved and I was loved. And that's not nothing. That is the main thing, in my opinion. "

Sarah Dessen
(That song...)

#41993
"Be nice! begged them. I understood the message: kindness was the ideal place where untimely screaming and walls of silence did not terrify you. When we were nice, we avoided arguments of any kind. Be careful, it's not so easy to be nice, especially in a world where treachery is king.

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#41995
She had understood, before me, that in my solitude it was company that I needed.

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#41996
What made things harder, I think, was that after my father died, my mother started freaking out. She made all her things disappear. She threw almost everything away. In a way, it was almost as if he had never been there.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41997
The "almost" boyfriends, she sighed. You know, they almost love you, and then almost more. The only thing they are absolutely sure of is that they want to sleep with you. I hate this.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41998
Mom, she says, I'm not trying to annoy you. I'm just saying it's been a year and a half now... and maybe it's time to move on. Dad probably wished you were less unhappy. I am sure of that.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#41999
I should have been with him, she should have left him alone. "Should have, could have, would have wanted" sounds so simple, these words put to the past.

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#42000
The problem with people who know how to listen is that they don't complete your sentences, they don't interrupt you, so your words don't get lost in nature or are altered along the way. No, they're waiting and forcing you to sue.

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#42001
You must really love music, I noticed, eyes fixed on the stacks of CDs. "Not you?" responded by changing his lane. - Yes, I do. Everybody loves music, don't they? No, no, no "No?" - Some people think they love music, but they have no idea what it really is. And then there are those who have a great interest in music but do not listen to the right songs. They're misinformed. I mean, there are people like me. I watched him for a second. He was sitting in his seat, his hair brushing the ceiling, his elbow on the glass, but this time he was still intimidating, but this time because of his build and the intense look he pointed at me for a moment before putting him back on the road. " Like you?" Can you explain it to me? He turned on his flasher and slowed down. In front of me stood my old college. A yellow school bus was coming out of the parking lot. - These are people who live for music and seek it everywhere, wherever it is. Can we imagine a life without music? These people are enlightened. Oh, I don't know. I replied when I did not understand his speech. - When you think about it, music is unifying, it has incredible strength. People who express differing opinions about everything sometimes have music in common. I nodded, not knowing what to say. "In addition," he continued, telling me that he did not expect a response from me, the music is an absolute consistency. That's why she and we have an almost visceral bond, you know? A song instantly takes you back to a moment, to a place, to a person. No matter if you or the world around you have changed, this song remains the same as the moment you lived. Which is amazing when you think about it.

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#42002
- Seriously ... I skipped classes, I went to little prodigies, but I'm a failure, in relational terms. So I sometimes say particularly stupid things. - You don't have to skip classes for that. I'm an average student with average grades, like B, and I too often slip. - B? He seemed horrified.

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#42003
The first time after we moved to Montford Falls, my little world had already changed so much that I didn't feel the need to change. So I just changed my first name (...) "My name is Eliza" (...) I had cast my new identity between the daily news about the bahut and the usual instructions, and so messed up, put away, fifteen years of my life to carry out my rebirth, all at a record speed and even before my first hour of class! I don't know what Dad thought ... (...) But he didn't say anything. I think he understood in his own way. We both left the same town and fled the same situation. Dad had been forced to stay Gus Sweet, but I bet he would gladly have changed his identity if he had the opportunity.

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#42004
The past is always the past... No matter how hard you try to forget him, he always remembers you, whether you like it or not.

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#42005
I understood Harriet. When life is suddenly too beautiful, we are afraid that the universe will restore its good old balance as dry. Happiness attracts unhappiness, what is lost is found, and so on.

Sarah Dessen
(You who have the key...)

#42006
But sometimes you have to settle for what people can give us. Even if it's not what we want... It's better than nothing, don't you think?

Sarah Dessen
(You who have the key...)

#42007
When you care about someone who ignores you, the worst thing is to show them.

Sarah Dessen
(You who have the key...)

#42008
What she didn't know was that I was suspicious of everyone without exception. Whether it's to ask for my route, to drive me to high school or elsewhere, or to seek an opinion or advice. Okay, it was inflated to be lost, but I had understood for ages that I would rather be completely lost than depend on others to orient myself. This is loneliness, in theory or in principle: you are solely responsible for what falls on you, whether positive, negative or in between.

Sarah Dessen
(You who have the key...)

#42009
[...] I always prefer to prepare for the worst, with complete strangers. Same with friends. In the end, I'm never disappointed.

Sarah Dessen
(You who have the key...)

#42010
I understood Harriet. When life is suddenly too beautiful, we are afraid that the universe will restore its good old balance as dry. Happiness attracts unhappiness, what is lost is found, and so on.

Sarah Dessen
(You who have the key...)

#42011
"Macy," she said, "this is John Donald, and Philip." "Macy is currently in between relationships," Kristy said. And I try, but I'm really trying, to show him that there are thousands of possibilities to seize. "These guys," continued Kristy, making a gesture that incorporated the entire table, "are insordible." But they're frankly nice. "That said, the fact that we are insortable," Said John, "did not prevent Kristy from going out with each of us."

Sarah Dessen
(Forever... until tomorrow)

#42012
All these names, it was like the pearls of a necklace. Reunited but separated, and nevertheless forming a family forever.

Sarah Dessen
(You who have the key...)

#42013
- I'd rather crash than risk nothing. Life's too short, don't you think?

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#42014
What if being a girl at the end of the day was about being interested in borrowing rates and skinny jeans, BMX and shocking pink? Do not have one interest, but several, to infinity.

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

#42015
All this time wasted moving forward with cautious steps... And yet nothing had changed. So maybe it was better to go into life, at the end of the day. Throw yourself into the pile, even if you have to peel your knees a few times. Anyway, whether I was wise or disorderly, calm or upset, I always came back to the same point.

Sarah Dessen
(Once and for all)

#42016
"He's great," Leo continued. He is an Irishman with a very sparse prose but a dense vocabulary, despite everything. The entirety of his first novel takes place over a day in a potato field. And guess what? It is told from the point of view of the plow!

Sarah Dessen
(Once and for all)

#42023
He took my existential anxieties very seriously, convinced that he had deranged his daughter for good, that he had ruined my life for the long term. On the contrary, he had done nothing else since my birth than to hold me at arm's length, to do everything in his power to protect me. And this, even - what I say, especially - when the rest of my world was falling apart.

Sarah Dessen
(The rest of the story)

#42024
Many words had been used throughout the years to describe my mother, both before and after her death in 2013. "Sublime," it was often said, and just after "lit," or its more magnanimous, "passionate" equivalent. We also sometimes added "upsetting," "exquisite" and "full of spirit." But they were just words. My mother had never been a simple combination of letters.

Sarah Dessen
(The rest of the story)

#42025
In life, there are events that are auspicious and those that portend the worst. Of course, for my grandmother as well as for me, the change that was coming was clearly in the first of these two categories. After my father and Tracy married, I was going to move in with them in the new house they had just bought near my high school. Nana would finally find her apartment. She could well tell anyone who wanted to hear her that she didn't care about being disturbed... I knew that the comings and goings of his two cumbersome roommates—his son and granddaughter, still a teenager—would not really miss him.

Sarah Dessen
(The rest of the story)

#42026
"Who knows what the future holds? We walk alone in the woods when suddenly the landscape changes and we see in the distance an extraordinary thing, unexpected, almost magical, that we would never have found if we had not shown perseverance: a new friend that we feel we have always known, an unforgettable memory, even - who knows? A carousel. »

Sarah Dessen
(Never again)

#42032
"I would have liked to have felt just once that feeling of having choices within my reach when everything was falling apart around me, rather than having to resign myself."

Sarah Dessen
(Never again)

#42033
"After I finally let go, I probably needed to hold on to something or someone."

Sarah Dessen
(Never again)

#42034
"The ability of a song to plunge you back into a particular moment in your life, as if it were yours alone, when a million people feel the same emotion when they hear it."

Sarah Dessen
(Never again)

#42035
"Life went on, normal and joyful, in a world that was not... When we realized that, you couldn't go back, like a face. Or a name. Once the truth is discovered, it is forever imposed. »

Sarah Dessen
(Never again)

#42065
I should have been happy that my mother and sister respected the privacy and space I aspired to, but I was watching for the noises upstairs. Steps, or a door slamming, finally something that persuades me that I did not die of loneliness.

Sarah Dessen
(Get me the moon)

#42066
But it takes negative to do the positive. That's life.

Sarah Dessen
(Get me the moon)

#42067
My sister always spoke. Despite the tears, I could hear him swear to me that everything would be fine. I knew she believed in it with all her soul. But I was also sure of one thing: it was easier to get lost than to find or find yourself. I understood better now why we were always looking and why we rarely find: there are so many locks and so few keys.

Sarah Dessen
(You who have the key...)

#42068
- Well, and now..." He slipped closer to me. "Let's say I'm your mother. "I'm sorry?" "I am your mother," he repeated. Tell me you want to quit modeling. I blushed like a peony. - I can't do it. - Why? Is that too hard to believe? Do you think I'm a bad actor? - No, it's just that... - Because I'm good. Everyone wanted me to be his mother in the band.

Sarah Dessen
(Listen to her)

#42074
"It must be hard to be always new," he finally said. - Bof. Not much. (...) "At the same time," said David, "I like the idea of constantly starting from scratch: every time, you are like in front of a blank page. And at least you don't have to explain yourself all the time. - That's right. No one knows that Gerv the Perv was once your best friend. Or that you were the issue of a fight between girls, because of a love triangle. - Or that your parents' divorce was downright atrocious. I looked at him, speechless. "Sorry, Maclean, but that's what you were trying to get at, right?" Not at all. If that was the case, it was unintentional. - We needed to take off, Dad and I. It's been good for us. - To live in the temporary? - To make a fresh start! Finally, four ...

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#42075
I was embarrassed, yet there was nothing. I was pretty proud that we only had the minimum. It made our moves easier. David was opening another closet. Empty. - Maclean, your kitchen is completely empty! -But we have everything we need, I swear. He seemed skeptical. "Finally, except thyme," I said. Look, my dad works at the restaurant and we don't cook much at home. - You don't even have glass dishes! How do you do if you have to cook a chicken or a roast? - I buy a tray in aluminum, pardi! New look stunned. What's going on? I resumed. Have you ever packed glass dishes? They're chipping, or worse, breaking! (...) - Don't take this the wrong way, but I think it's sad. -No, why? It's organized. - You're talking about an excuse. It's like you're on the way out all the time. (...) - Anything. -I'm serious, Maclean. Is that how it is all over your house? I mean, if I open the drawers in your room, I'll only see two pairs of jeans, right? - No way you're opening my drawers, but the answer is no. Anyway, if you're interested, we had more stuff before. But every time we moved, I realized that we were using almost nothing, so I limited. (...) - Have you moved often? He asked me. - Not too much. As he did not seem convinced, I added: - I have been living with Dad for two years ... and this is our fourth shack, I believe. - Four cities in two years? - Obviously, said like that ...

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#42076
- If I understand correctly, you want to fire Leo? Dad looked down at his yellow block. - According to Chuckles's formula, yes. Given our results, Leo and everyone at the top of our list should leave. Opal growled and pushed his chair away as if to get up. - But they're not numbers! They are individuals, with qualities! - Leo can't even tell the difference between yoghurt and sour cream! ... Look, Opal, I'm doing my job. If something or someone doesn't work, you have to change it. - Like buns? Dad sighed. - It was an extra cost. Their preparation took too long for a mediocre profit. We were losing money. "I thought they were good," she said in a low voice. "Me too," said Dad. Opal looked at him in surprise. "Oh, that's it?" "Yes. - I thought you liked fried dill pickles? Dad shook his head. - You talk, he hates pickles! I answered. "Especially fried," Dad added. Opal was speechless. - It's not about my personal desires, it's about the profitability of the restaurant. You take the situation too closely, Opal. -You know, Gus, I could never do that. - Expand. She showed him her block. - Landing somewhere, making tons of changes that annoy everyone and, finally, turn around. Not to mention all the time and work you put into it and then go back elsewhere, your mission is over. - It's a job like any other. "I get it. (...) How do you not get attached to the people who work in the restaurants where you are parachuted? I was burning to hear Dad's answer. "In truth, it is not always easy," he said after a silence. But I myself owned a restaurant for several years. I put myself into a lot of effort, and it was difficult. It's worse when you're a manager. - I understand you ... I've loved Luna Blu since I was a teenager. I put my heart into it! He beats to the rhythm of this restaurant, you know! "That's why we have to put all the odds on the side of the Luna Blu," Dad continued. Even at the cost of difficult decisions.

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#42080
I locked in me this strange feeling of both feeling the world slipping under my feet and a hand in mine, and knowing that if I fell, at least, I would not fall alone...

Sarah Dessen
(See you again one day)

#42081
I think this party is stupid, manipulated by the card manufacturers who flood the market with stupid wishes! Harriet told me when, an hour later, completely flat, I sat on the stool of the crate to rest. If you really love someone, you have to show them every day, not just on February 14th, that's all.

Sarah Dessen
(You who have the key...)

#42082
But risk is part of romantic relationships. Sometimes it works, sometimes it screws up, it's life.

Sarah Dessen
(You who have the key...)

#42083
The worst part is that Mom was found after I broke up with Ben. It's like fate is pulling my tongue out. Maybe it was my karma to have only a small number of people at the same time in my life? Mum would come back, Ben would walk away, one door would open, another would close. There you go.

Sarah Dessen
(You who have the key...)

#42084
I'm alone because I'm very demanding!

Sarah Dessen
(On the road to the future)

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