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
Related
Just do you. Go with the flow and with your life because that's you experiencing life. You being...
KEKE PALMER You just got with the flow because life is just all about how you feel.
POST MALONE I believe in going with the flow. I don't believe in fighting against the flow. You ride on your riv...
C. JOYBELL C. You will have disagreement with your own mind because of discrepancies between your purpose and life...
SUNDAY ADELAJA How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, s...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sym...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sym...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
JIM GENOVESE If you find out that people that once were in your life are evil you dont take matters into your own...
GARY F EVANS... you are magnet and magic. You are genius, power and diamond. You are your own God. Do not wait in en...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Bec...
MICHELLE OBAMA Everything has it's own time and place,
Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow.
SHELLI THOMPSON Don’t live your life not to know what to do with your time. If you don’t have any results to sho...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Because we're out there just beating the street and on tour and working so hard, you forget that awa...
GARY LEVOX You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down ...
JOHN LENNON Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE You create the flow, you are a leader, you go with the flow, you are a follower, if you are up again...
APURVA GAGLANI You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the conse...
ERNIE ISLEY If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the nega...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN When you are not happy in your life, love or job then when NOW is the time to change your course in ...
DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you'...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and ...
SHAILENE WOODLEY There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with p...
GORDON ATKINSON When you have much higher ethical values than the ethical values of your own people, you stop belong...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN How far you go in life depends on
your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sym...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER Sleep with people because you want to have an orgasm or because you love them..not because you want ...
NERISSA IRVING In what we call "real life"--if you want to be successful, if you want to get on in the longterm--yo...
DANIEL GLATTAUER For me the most important thing in my life is love. I think you have to be in love with your family,...
JOSE MOURINHO Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it com...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from...
CHARITY SHEA Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means wh...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, be...
DAVID NAIL Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choo...
RICHARD BACH Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you cho...
RICHARD BACH Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choo...
RICHARD BACH Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you cho...
RICHARD BACH Cherish your present.
Your memories.
You don't know how long you might have the
people in your life....
MARLENE M. CHAVEZ Do not ever go out of yourself because you will get lost even from your life.
SORIN CERIN When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key...
WOODROW T. WILSON Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A woman has so many facets, and when you create an image, you have to play with all the different mo...
MONICA BELLUCCI You can have a plan, but you have to be flexible. Every day is unpredictable, and you just have to g...
JANE KRAKOWSKI When I'm in New York, I have a wonderful hair and makeup team. We've just been laughing all ...
CARRIE ANN INABA All your experiences, the places you go to, the encounters you have with people, and, of course, you...
CYRILLE AIMEE You have to learn to go with the flow. Sometimes you get caught in the moment and you get emotionall...
DON CAMPBELL You have to learn to go with the flow, ... Sometimes you get caught in the moment and you get emotio...
DON CAMPBELL How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sym...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply int...
WILFRID LAURIER You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thou...
TAYLOR SWIFT Follow your dreams, not the oppositions that arise within you and out of you. It is time to play the...
PHILIP T. M. I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't li...
DAN MARINO To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do
this, you need to ...
DEEPAK CHOPRA Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an a...
TROIAN BELLISARIO You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thou...
TAYLOR SWIFT When you're part of an ensemble and share the screen with so many people, you become close to th...
AIDAN TURNER We have over an hour of footage with Ken Marino. Same with Kevin Smith. Because you never know, when...
LAUREN MILLER If you really want to be the best, you have to realize that just situations are against you, just be...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks do...
COLIN HANKS The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.
MARLA MAPLES You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of ...
KIRSTEN DUNST You might not get the apology you deserve. You might not get answers to explain the actions of other...
SHANNON L. ALDER In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...
CRAIG GROESCHEL When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it th...
WOODROW WILSON: WHEN YOU GO TO THE GROCERS AND BRING YOUR THINGS HOME, YOU SLIDE THE 2 YOGURT CUPS THAT ARE THERE TO...
BRUCE BANTER Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about wha...
PAUL PIERCE If one word can be used to characterize the new career, it is self-reliance , ... That means you bel...
BARBARA MOSES With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a be...
MADISON MARLOW Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU Whether you choose to move on from your struggles and enjoy life or waddle in your misery, life will...
GERMANY KENT When you're running a company, you have employees - lots of them - that can interrupt your sched...
STEVE BALLMER If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a singl...
LADY GAGA The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no ...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor ...
FANNY BRICE You have to learn to make peace with yourself. If you dwell in anger all the time you will just stre...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just ...
JOSH LIEB Finding meaning for life is simply coming into significance because you have been able to accomplish...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you w...
ADAM SCHLESINGER The people who are your friends before you got the crown are the people who are going to be your bes...
MEG CABOT The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is ...
RANDY PAUSCH As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your atten...
COLIN BAKER Message from Archangel Raguel: “Trust that you are being guided. What you most want IS possible. T...
KIMBERLY DAWN In my 39 years in the military, I have learned that you are not a profession just because you say yo...
MARTIN DEMPSEY If you submit to your gift, people will seek and invite you, you will get well paid because you have...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Life is like the remote control, switch it , sway with it.Find what satisfies you and go with it. Wh...
KAT MORGAN You can have anything you want, if you go out and get it. If you claim it as your own. You have a ri...
DANIELLE STEEL Because at some point you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your li...
SANDI LYNN You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.
LORI LOUGHLIN A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own ...
STEPHEN KING When you discuss your steel industry with China you are credible because you are part of the E.U., n...
EMMANUEL MACRON You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally availa...
GALE HAROLD As long as you know yourself and you got good people around you and you passionate about what you do...
TYGA
More Sarah Dessen
It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.
SARAH DESSEN When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not ...
SARAH DESSEN But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.”
“You don’t have to assum...
SARAH DESSEN The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.
SARAH DESSEN He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that...
SARAH DESSEN Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
SARAH DESSEN So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, t...
SARAH DESSEN There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single f...
SARAH DESSEN And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself ...
SARAH DESSEN You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit.
SARAH DESSEN But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.
SARAH DESSEN Okay,' he said. He took a breath. 'What would you do, if you could do anything?'
I took a step ...
SARAH DESSEN The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affe...
SARAH DESSEN But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized ...
SARAH DESSEN I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not...
SARAH DESSEN But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you anoth...
SARAH DESSEN But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to h...
SARAH DESSEN I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into a...
SARAH DESSEN I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
There we...
SARAH DESSEN If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.
SARAH DESSEN the truth about forever is that it is happening right now
SARAH DESSEN Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it. it's like forever, always ch...
SARAH DESSEN I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As lo...
SARAH DESSEN Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
SARAH DESSEN We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe...
SARAH DESSEN What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, wou...
SARAH DESSEN But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised.
Yo...
SARAH DESSEN Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.
SARAH DESSEN It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You ...
SARAH DESSEN What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a ...
SARAH DESSEN Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem ...
SARAH DESSEN I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
SARAH DESSEN It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end...
SARAH DESSEN That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it...
SARAH DESSEN It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the ...
SARAH DESSEN If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the w...
SARAH DESSEN There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd bet...
SARAH DESSEN All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bit...
SARAH DESSEN I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, ...
SARAH DESSEN Don't think or judge, just listen.
SARAH DESSEN I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, a...
SARAH DESSEN How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I...
SARAH DESSEN Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, w...
SARAH DESSEN There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifti...
SARAH DESSEN If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and eve...
SARAH DESSEN You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
SARAH DESSEN Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human exist...
SARAH DESSEN Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.
SARAH DESSEN If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.
SARAH DESSEN It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and stru...
SARAH DESSEN Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and a...
SARAH DESSEN He thought about this for a second. "True. But if you never really make friends, you probably don't ...
SARAH DESSEN Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who c...
SARAH DESSEN You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those ...
SARAH DESSEN No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to giv...
SARAH DESSEN Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow comple...
SARAH DESSEN I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?"
"Like I said," he ...
SARAH DESSEN Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Bec...
SARAH DESSEN Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memo...
SARAH DESSEN I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft lan...
SARAH DESSEN This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in ...
SARAH DESSEN I don't lie."
"You don't lie," I repeated.
"That's what I said."
"Ever."
"Nope."...
SARAH DESSEN for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world...
SARAH DESSEN I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, ...
SARAH DESSEN I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone...
SARAH DESSEN When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body pres...
SARAH DESSEN It's not always easy being her daughter.'
I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no ma...
SARAH DESSEN I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked ...
SARAH DESSEN Oh, God," I said.
"No, it's Dexter," he replied, offering me his hand, which I ignored.
He...
SARAH DESSEN What the hell," I said, pushing off the wall, ready to take off the head of whatever stupid salesper...
SARAH DESSEN But you, fine sir." John Miller clapped Dexter on the shoulder, a bit unsteadily. "You have problems...
SARAH DESSEN Plastic ware," he said slowly, "like knives and forks and spoons?"
I brushed a bit of dirt off ...
SARAH DESSEN Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?
SARAH DESSEN I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if...
SARAH DESSEN I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.
SARAH DESSEN Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everythi...
SARAH DESSEN Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of ridin...
SARAH DESSEN Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside
SARAH DESSEN Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the thing...
SARAH DESSEN Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actu...
SARAH DESSEN Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain h...
SARAH DESSEN Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relat...
SARAH DESSEN I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead,...
SARAH DESSEN Look, everyone mourns at their own pace. Maybe you're just a little bit ahead of her, but she'll get...
SARAH DESSEN She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands f...
SARAH DESSEN But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More ...
SARAH DESSEN There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
SARAH DESSEN Macy: “In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.”
W...
SARAH DESSEN funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story
SARAH DESSEN Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?
SARAH DESSEN Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of reg...
SARAH DESSEN Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved,...
SARAH DESSEN She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the th...
SARAH DESSEN I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, kn...
SARAH DESSEN Wherever you will go,
I will let you down,
But this lullaby goes on.
SARAH DESSEN I am still the center sister. But I see it differently now. There has to be a middle. Without it, no...
SARAH DESSEN Maybe not," she said as we came to the car. "But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that...
SARAH DESSEN Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?
Dexter: ...
SARAH DESSEN Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.
SARAH DESSEN Silence is so freaking loud
SARAH DESSEN Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the boo...
SARAH DESSEN You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was th...
SARAH DESSEN I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time....
SARAH DESSEN Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe ...
SARAH DESSEN That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we...
SARAH DESSEN because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. no matter what...
SARAH DESSEN I've never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script.
SARAH DESSEN Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is...
SARAH DESSEN He glanced over at me. 'Scared? Of Reggie? What, she thinks he might force her to give up caffeine f...
SARAH DESSEN In midair, dangling lost above the world.
SARAH DESSEN And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up ...
SARAH DESSEN And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.
SARAH DESSEN Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.
SARAH DESSEN Best Friends.
And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to he...
SARAH DESSEN Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with yo...
SARAH DESSEN I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared abou...
SARAH DESSEN It was something I couldn't put my finger on or define clearly, but a whole mishmash of words and in...
SARAH DESSEN As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to l...
SARAH DESSEN The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.
SARAH DESSEN This world is an awful/ugly place not to have a best friend.
SARAH DESSEN its reall bad
SARAH DESSEN Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.
SARAH DESSEN I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother'...
SARAH DESSEN If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way
SARAH DESSEN You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lo...
SARAH DESSEN And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she w...
SARAH DESSEN I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, trut...
SARAH DESSEN He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.
SARAH DESSEN When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not y...
SARAH DESSEN Mom." I couldn't believe she was doing this again. She was taking this moment, this time when I was ...
SARAH DESSEN I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd thi...
SARAH DESSEN Macon: “It’s true. And if that doesn’t work, use the Jedi Mind Trick. But only if you really h...
SARAH DESSEN Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love...
SARAH DESSEN I've given lots of people chances," she said suddenly, as if Marion was still in the room to hear us...
SARAH DESSEN I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from...
SARAH DESSEN You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop ...
SARAH DESSEN You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lo...
SARAH DESSEN What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they we...
SARAH DESSEN Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overt...
SARAH DESSEN Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.
SARAH DESSEN The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get...
SARAH DESSEN An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led u...
SARAH DESSEN So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop the...
SARAH DESSEN Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.
-Maggie
SARAH DESSEN Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter wha...
SARAH DESSEN So much had happened that morning. Yet it was this image, this moment, that i kept going back to hou...
SARAH DESSEN [Adam picks up the camera] "I have to get a shot of this."
The reaction in the room was swift, ...
SARAH DESSEN You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.
SARAH DESSEN It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you we...
SARAH DESSEN There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other peo...
SARAH DESSEN You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a wo...
SARAH DESSEN Hate Spinnerbait!
SARAH DESSEN It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovere...
SARAH DESSEN It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.
SARAH DESSEN Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground...
SARAH DESSEN There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me ...
SARAH DESSEN Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and...
SARAH DESSEN It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it tak...
SARAH DESSEN Wherever you will go,
I will let you down,
But this lullaby goes on.
SARAH DESSEN I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what...
SARAH DESSEN With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is t...
SARAH DESSEN You want me to give her a key?" the guy asked.
"I want you to give her a possibility," she told...
SARAH DESSEN What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered wh...
SARAH DESSEN Look,” he said, “the point is there’s no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anyt...
SARAH DESSEN Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all...
SARAH DESSEN Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the...
SARAH DESSEN I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran...
SARAH DESSEN Nothing like being scolded by a hippie.
SARAH DESSEN After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and sp...
SARAH DESSEN I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.
SARAH DESSEN Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never rea...
SARAH DESSEN After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor wo...
SARAH DESSEN It [I'm leaving] wasn't really necessary to say, especially if you were already walking away. Almost...
SARAH DESSEN It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it should...
SARAH DESSEN When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.
SARAH DESSEN That's not a real answer.'
Says who?'
Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death...
SARAH DESSEN It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.
SARAH DESSEN I want the white one
SARAH DESSEN As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pret...
SARAH DESSEN Isn't it weird," I said, "the way you remember things, when someone's gone?"
What do you mean?"...
SARAH DESSEN I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as...
SARAH DESSEN So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me.
"Barbie," I said. "All their names are Barbie."
SARAH DESSEN Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?"
He thought for a moment. "Who says there h...
SARAH DESSEN I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings...
SARAH DESSEN If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don�...
SARAH DESSEN Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuff...
SARAH DESSEN There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the sto...
SARAH DESSEN That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me--it was nothing...
SARAH DESSEN And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling in...
SARAH DESSEN Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.
SARAH DESSEN It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were y...
SARAH DESSEN These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to...
SARAH DESSEN You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like...
SARAH DESSEN Story of my life.
SARAH DESSEN instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her ...
SARAH DESSEN I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, callin...
SARAH DESSEN I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am ...
SARAH DESSEN I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had t...
SARAH DESSEN Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtak...
SARAH DESSEN Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.
SARAH DESSEN