Sarah Dessen Quotes

Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?

Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!

I like the second better, but the first fits with the vampire watching what she can’t have.” I blinked. “What he can’t have,” I amended, flushing.

She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone else and sought solitude here. She yearned to kiss him, and she saw the answering longing in his eyes. Every fiber of her body told her to throw herself into his arms, but she knew what she had to do. She wanted to say, I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage; but instead she said: "I think I'm going to marry Alfred.

His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my fist and pulling him in to kiss me; I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon

Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.

I know that unlike that night, tonight I won't kiss her. Or touch her. Or even see her up close. Tonight, I'll listen. And that'll be enough.

I get that we can't be together. And it's not like I'm so weak-willed that the simple act of saying hello to me will cause me to jump your bones in the hall.

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

When I see a young girl, I can see why you would be attracted if you were a man. I remember when it was like that for me, too, and it was nice.

I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.

I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

I've fancied other women, but I haven't done anything about it.

I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

Love is the most elusive thing I know. Always an arm's length away, teasing me and asking me to stretch a bit more and grab it.

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.