Sarah Dessen

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.

Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.

You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.

Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.

I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.