Sarah Dessen Quotes

Nothing good ever ends.

It has always been forever, for me, Sassenach

I want to keep you, till the end of days.

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.

You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you. You were speaking in a language I did not understand. Never, never, I can conceive of a love which is able to foresee its own termination. Love is its own eternity. Love is in every moment of its being: all time. It is the only glimpse we are permitted of what eternity is. So I did not hear you. The words were nonsense.

That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.

Time has no meaning, Love will endure.

I could stay with you forever and never realize the time.

We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was just pretend.

I will love you truly forever and a day!

I saw The Sound of Music again recently, and I loved it. Probably it's a more valuable film now than when it first came out, because some of the things it stood for have already disappeared. There's a kind of naive loveliness about it, and love goes by so fast ... love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it?

You're in my heart, you're in my soul. You'll be my breath, should I grow old.

In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever. At first, as they stood there, their hands were clenched together. They relaxed slowly until during the walk back home their fingers were laced in as gentle a clasp as that of any two young girlfriends trotting up the road on a summer day wondering what happened to butterflies in the winter.

...once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died.

When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.

And yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever.

Everything I could want in eternity is possible because of you," he thought, and then he stopped thinking and simply enjoyed being in the arms of the one person in all of forever who made his life complete.

For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you’ll take me in your arms again.