Frases de Sarah Dessen

“No, no, no to Tallyho.”

“Qualquer um pode se esconder. Mas enfrentar as coisas, passar por elas, é o que te faz forte.”

“Nunca há tempo ou lugar para um verdadeiro amor. Ele acontece por acaso, numa batida do coração, num piscar de olhos.”

“A vida é um lugar horrível para não se ter um melhor amigo.”

“Você nunca se acostuma com a idéia de perder alguém. Justamente quando pensa ter se reconciliado, ter sido aceito, alguém relembra isso para você, e machuca você novamente, e é revoltante.”

“Ser legal não é fácil como parece, especialmente quando o resto do mundo pode ser tão mau.”

“Tudo o que eu queria era esquecer. Mas mesmo quando eu pensei que tinha, as recordações continuavam emergindo, como pedaços de madeira que bóiam até a superfície depois de um naufrágio.”

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

“Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.”

“I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.”

“When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.”

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

“I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.”

“But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.”

“It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.”

“It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do -need to do- more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.”

“It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.”

“Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.”

“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.”

“one word could change the whole world”

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

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

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

“Don't think or judge, 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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Silence is so freaking loud”

“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.”