Frasi di Sarah Dessen

„Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.“

—  Sarah Dessen, libro What Happened to Goodbye

What Happened To Goodbye (2011)
Origine: What Happened to Goodbye

„Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.“

—  Sarah Dessen

Origine: 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.“

—  Sarah Dessen, libro The Truth About Forever

Origine: The Truth About Forever

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

—  Sarah Dessen

Variante: This world is an awful/ugly place not to have a best friend.
Origine: Someone Like You (1998)

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

—  Sarah Dessen, libro This Lullaby

Origine: This Lullaby

„Don't think or judge, just listen.“

—  Sarah Dessen, libro Just Listen

Origine: Just Listen

„There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.“

—  Sarah Dessen, libro Just Listen

Origine: Just Listen

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

—  Sarah Dessen, libro This Lullaby

Origine: This Lullaby

„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.“

—  Sarah Dessen, libro The Truth About Forever

Origine: The Truth About Forever

„Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.“

—  Sarah Dessen, libro Just Listen

Variante: It seemed safer to hold it in, where the only one who could judge was me.
Origine: Just Listen

„That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.“

—  Sarah Dessen, libro The Truth About Forever

Origine: The Truth About Forever

„It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.“

—  Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

Origine: Lock and Key

„It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.“

—  Sarah Dessen, libro The Truth About Forever

Origine: The Truth About Forever

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

—  Sarah Dessen, libro Keeping the Moon

Origine: Keeping the Moon

„I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.“

—  Sarah Dessen, libro The Truth About Forever

Origine: The Truth About Forever

„Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.“

—  Sarah Dessen

„Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.“

—  Sarah Dessen, libro This Lullaby

Origine: This Lullaby

„Silence is so freaking loud“

—  Sarah Dessen, libro Just Listen

Origine: Just Listen

„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.“

—  Sarah Dessen, libro Just Listen

Origine: Just Listen