Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it’s not what we want, at least it’s something.

from Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen

Music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment.

from Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn’t really make anything neater. It just masks what is below. It’s only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.

from What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen

Some things don’t last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.

from This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen

It’s all in the view. That’s what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you’d better make every second count.

from The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

It’s a lot easier to be lost than found. It’s the reason we’re always searching and rarely discovered-so many locks not enough keys.

from Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen

// the moment you found a key for a lock, you find a bunch of locks behind the opened door.

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.


from Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen