Sarah Dessen Quotes

when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.

What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who enter the world of fluid modernity.

Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--

There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!

I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.

We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again

So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.

We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again

Seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.

Maybe this was our last summer as best friends. I feel like something's going to change now and I'm not going to be able to change it back. —Margaret

Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone.

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through.

And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.

I don't think you can ever return, really.