Sarah Dessen Quotes

Not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.

Moving on is easy what your leaving behind is what makes it hard.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Accepting that my time with Arsenal was over was difficult because I never imagined leaving.

Once you get it in your head you're finished with something, to go back, it hurts.

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

They say that breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

In love, you pay as you leave.

I lost you once, I think I can do it again.

I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. 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. Yessir.

It hurts when it don't last, no easy way saying bye. So I'mma spread my wings and head for the sky.

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.

Leaving Chelsea was sad, but naturally everything has to come to an end.

A loss is something tough.

I don't think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren't much of a breakup.

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

It's so hard saying goodbye... it's hard saying good bye to all the things that one has held dear for weeks, months, sometimes years.

It's definitely tough to get up and walk away from something you have been a part of for so long. But it's part of life.

My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.

You can’t keep her.” I know that. But I’m not ready to give her up just yet.

I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.

Do i really want him dead? What i want... what i want is to have him back.