Sarah Dessen Quotes

For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.

So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.

I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being.

It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than to start something that I couldn't finish That I couldn't care about That I couldn't remember starting in the first place I don't want to know you You went years without me You might as well keep going.

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

Look at what you've done, you're losing me is what you've won. Got me planning to go solo

What I think I'll do is I'll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I'll turn up on your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire.

I'm spreading my wings at last.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

I've had relationships before where you break up, and you think you're going to die, and then you realise you're definitely not going to die, and actually, you're probably better off without them.

I'm great at leaving. I am less talented at getting left, though I should be better, given how much it's happened.

What am I supposed to do, Sit around and wait for you? Well I can't do that, And there's no turning back. I need time to move on, I need love to feel strong. Cause I've got time to think it through, And maybe I'm too good for you!

I feel the only way I'm going to be successful in moving on is if I keep a separation.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back.

Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

I thought you'd have the decency to change. But babe, I guess you didn't take that warning, cause I'm not about to look at your face again.

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

You gave me reason to believe that we were always meant to be, but now I see you were wrong, you can't keep running back to me with all them baby baby please, No More.

And I am in retirement from love.