The best Quotes by Sarah Dessen

In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.

There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

Just Listen

So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.

Just Listen

Memories

Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside.

Along for the Ride

Love Relationships

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes... blotting out the future.

Just Listen

Past

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

The Truth About Forever

Failures & Mistakes

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Keeping the Moon

Self-Confidence Respect

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

This Lullaby

Love

It's just that... 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.

The Truth About Forever

Life Failures & Mistakes Beginning Scars

Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? 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 your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

Just Listen

Music Memories

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.

This Lullaby

Memories Eternity

I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

This Lullaby

Love Trust Breakup Falling in love

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.

Just Listen

Heart

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.

This Lullaby

Love Relationships

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

Someone Like You

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

The Truth About Forever

Falling in love

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

Along for the Ride

Ending Sentences

'You want to talk about failure?' He looked up at me, meeting my eyes. 'Try being the one who was driving. Who got to live.'

Along for the Ride

Failures & Mistakes Guilt

'Of course I do,' he said. 'Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative.'
'Which is?'
'Not even trying.' Now he did look at me, straight on.
'Life's short, you know?'

Along for the Ride

Failures & Mistakes

And 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.

Along for the Ride

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But there are mistakes that are necessary. Sometimes you have to die a little bit to get back to live a little longer.

Benedict Wells

Failures & Mistakes Breakup Beginning

I think that for me, as a UNC graduate, I value my education - I think everyone who's gone to that university values education.

Kenny Smith

North Carolina Charlotte

Why are there so many Latina's in Illinois?
Because that's where the Chica go.

Chicago Illinois

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5

Love

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Memories Death Grief & Condolence

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Music Sad Quotes

It's the way it works: Love plus time minus distance equals hate.

Louis C. K. - 2017

Relationships Marriage

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

Falling in love

Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Summer Shooting Stars

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

Bernard Williams

Summer Night June

If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

Roald Dahl

January July

I realise that it is August: the summer's last stand.

Sara Baume in A Line Made by Walking

August

The bare necessities of life will come to you.

Balu in The Jungle Book

Silence

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