Frases de Sarah Dessen

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“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.”

“I didn't trot my pain out to show around. I kept it better hidden than anyone. I did.”

“But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn't succeed. That's what drove me, all those nights studying. The fact that so many figured I couldn't do it.”

“Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.”

“I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.”

“Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.”

“You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.”

“Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.”

“Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again.”

“Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.”

“Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.”

“Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?" I asked him.
He looked at me and then said, "You're here, aren't you?”

“Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.”

“So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.”

“And don't change for a guy, ever," Leah added. "If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.”

“It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.”

“Life isn't only about the big moments whether they be good or bad. Maybe it’s about the small things that stretch out to strengthen the most tenuous bound.”

“Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be close.”

“When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.”

“Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.”

“So I learned another system: When in doubt, keep it out – out of earshot, out of the house – even if this meant, really, just keeping it in.”

“Again, it occurred to me how weird it was to be permanent in a place that to everyone else was only temporary. Like I could never be sure if they were the ones who weren't real, or if I was.”

“As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.”

“Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.”

“Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.”

“Now, see," Wes said, nodding at my plate, "this is going to blow your mind."
I looked at him. "It's a waffle, not the second coming.”

“The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in… protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.”

“Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.”

“I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that.”

“Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour.”