Sarah Dessen Quotes

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

I thought my character definitely was very much in love with him and wanted to be with him, but I think at some point they were going to have to draw the line.

How many times could you give up on someone you loved?

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.

I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.

There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.

Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.

You can have this kind of love. You can have it. You just grab it. Of course the problem with having that love is that you can lose it, too.

I am naive when it comes to love, you know what I mean? I do believe in falling in love at first sight and things like that.

You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

You can live your life being scared of losing someone, and at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you, and that's it.

Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.

If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.

With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

I feel like artists and their lyrics are something that people can relate to when it comes to love and break-ups. I really want people to know how I felt when I went through a break up, when I really felt alive, and everything in between.

I welcome people into my life. If they are genuine, they will stay, and if not, they might just leave. Hypothetically speaking, that's their loss. I keep it moving.

Finding another person to love is finding another person to lose.

You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.

I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.

If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would (hello!) find something else to love.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.