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1. "Silence is so freaking loud" ~ Sarah Dessen
2. "I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m." ~ Sarah Dessen
3. "What happened to goodbye?" ~ Sarah Dessen
4. "It's only advice. Ignore it if you want." ~ Sarah Dessen
5. "And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June, when I was willing to hand myself over free and clear. Now I needed her to return it all to me, with the faith that I could make my own way." ~ Sarah Dessen
6. "It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking." ~ Sarah Dessen
7. "Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?""In the open sea," he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints." ~ Sarah Dessen
8. "It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot." ~ Sarah Dessen
9. "The best gifts come from the heart, not the store." ~ Sarah Dessen
10. "Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak." ~ Sarah Dessen
11. "That was the nice thing about the Spot: you could hear everything, but no one could see you." ~ Sarah Dessen
12. "but you could also look at it the other way. Like you're saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate." ~ Sarah Dessen
13. "She tried to be someone people liked. She tried to be someone people disliked. But all I became was someone who didn't succeed with anything I tried to be." ~ Sarah Dessen
14. "This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud." ~ Sarah Dessen
15. "Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all." ~ Sarah Dessen
16. "You're a rule person," he said."My sister was a cheater. It sort of became necessary.""She cheated at this game?""She cheated ateverything ," I said. "When we played Monopoly, she alwaysinsisted on being banker,then helped herself to multiple loans and 'service fees' for every real estatetransaction. I was, like, ten oreleven before I played at someone else's house and they told me you couldn't dothat."He laughed, the sound seeming loud in all the quiet. I felt myself smiling,remembering."During staring contests," I said, "she always blinked.Always . But then she'dswear up and down shehadn't, and make you go again, and again. And when we played Truth, she lied.Blatantly." ~ Sarah Dessen
17. "If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood." ~ Sarah Dessen
18. "I felt tears prick my eyes as I looked down at the model again, looking at that girl and boy on the curb. Forever in that place, together." ~ Sarah Dessen
19. "Really? Screaming?"He shrugged. "It wasn't that bad. But there were definitely some freak-outs on both sides. Though, to be honest, the silence was worse.""Worse than screaming?" I said."Much," he said, nodding. "I mean, at least with an argument, you know what's happening. Or have some idea. Silence is… it could be anything. It's just –""So freaking loud," I finished for him.He pointed at me. "Exactly." ~ Sarah Dessen
20. "I felt something catch in my throat, a sudden surge of sadness that caught me unaware, almost taking my breath away. That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of something 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
21. "Just wait a second. We can't leave it like this." But this too, wasn't true. Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard." ~ Sarah Dessen
22. "It's so, so stupid what we do to ourselves because we're afraid. It's so stupid." ~ Sarah Dessen
23. "Say what you will, but you're never prepared for the surprise attack." ~ Sarah Dessen
24. "When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face." ~ Sarah Dessen
25. "I've seen what commitment leads to. Going in is the easy part. It's the ending that sucks!-Remy" ~ Sarah Dessen
26. "Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.""What?""He'll understand." ~ Sarah Dessen
27. "Pensé en todo lo que fue lavado una y otra vez. Hacemos este tipo de revoltijos en esta vida, tanto por accidente como a propósito. Pero limpiar la superficie realmente no hace que nada mejore. Solo enmascara lo que está por debajo. Es sólo cuando realmente cavas en lo profundo, que vas a lo subterráneo, que puedes ver quién eres realmente." ~ Sarah Dessen
28. "But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected my heart from some things, but would that really have been better? To hold myself apart because I was too scared that something might no be forever?" ~ Sarah Dessen
29. "which is completely out-of-line behavior. Then you are wholly within your rights to stomp on their foot." "No," Delia said, over her shoulder. "Actually, you're not. Just excuse yourself as politely as possible, and get out of arm's reach." Kristy looked at me, shaking her head. "Stomp them." she said, under her breath. "Really" ~ Sarah Dessen
30. "Donneven, Bettaquit and Mmmhmmmm" ~ Sarah Dessen
31. "I don't want everything to change." ~ Sarah Dessen
32. "All I wanted - all I'd ever wanted - was just to get away. To be somewhere small where I could crowd in and feel safe, all four walls pressed around me, no one staring or pointing or yelling." ~ Sarah Dessen
33. "Just start somewhere," Dr. Marshall had said to me as I ground a banana-pineapple one to bits between my teeth. "It doesn't have to be at the beginning." She'd pulled her legs up, Indian-style, letting the legal pad she'd been holding drop to the floor."I thought everything always had to start at the beginning," I said. "Not in this room," she said easily. "Go ahead, Caitlin. Just tell me one thing. It gets easier, I promise. The first thing is always the hardest." I looked down at my hands, stained mildly red from the particularly sticky watermelon Rancher. "Okay," I said, reaching forward to take another one out of the bowl, just in case. She was already sitting back in her chair, readying herself for whatever glimpse I would give her into the mess I'd become. "What was the name of Pygmalion's sister?"She blinked, twice, obviously surprised. "Ummm," she said, keeping her eyes on me. "I don't know.""Rogerson did," I told her. "Rogerson knew everything." ~ Sarah Dessen
34. "But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete." ~ Sarah Dessen
35. "It was just the lightest dusting, and another person might have mistaken it for something else. But I knew where I came from. No matter where I was, or what got me there, I would always feel at home when I touched sand." ~ Sarah Dessen
36. "It won't change anything," I replied. "And if I was any other girl, I would have gotten over it by now anyway."..."What?" he replied. "You're special, Emaline. You're not just any other girl." ~ Sarah Dessen
37. "Bettaquit" ~ Sarah Dessen
38. "My dreams were dull as my everyday life." ~ Sarah Dessen
39. "Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy." ~ Sarah Dessen
40. "What if even if I had told, or did tell, nobody believed me? Or even worse, blamed me for it?" ~ Sarah Dessen
41. "Harder to get in than out, like so little else." ~ Sarah Dessen
42. "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
43. "Like that box held the last little piece of what was normal, and I wasn't ready to give it up just yet." ~ Sarah Dessen
44. "If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all." ~ Sarah Dessen
45. "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
46. "Plus the fact that the window I was now facing opened up to the part of the lot where people picked up their brand-new cars. Every few minutes, one of the salesmen would walk someone right to the center of the window, hand them their shiny new keys, and then smile benevolently as they drove off into the sunset, just like in the commercials. What a bunch of shit." ~ Sarah Dessen
47. "No,' I said, shooting him a look. 'But you don't have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.'You don't have to assume the worst about everyone, either. THe world isn't always out to get you.'In your opinion,' I added.Look,' he said, 'the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. so you're left with a choice. Eitherhope for the best, or just expect the worst.' If you expect the worst you're never disappointed,' I pointed out.~Ruby and Nate, pg 259" ~ Sarah Dessen
48. "He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no sadness: nothing had changed. I realized all the times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought one I wore, the feelings only I felt." ~ Sarah Dessen
49. "Funny how a beautiful song could tell such an ugly story." ~ Sarah Dessen
50. "He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them." ~ Sarah Dessen
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