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    Sarah Dessen
    “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
    tags: friendship
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
    tags: love
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Don't think or judge, just listen.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    Sarah Dessen
    “I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
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    Sarah Dessen
    “There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”
    ― Sarah Dessen
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    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 on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
    tags: forever
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    Sarah Dessen
    “It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
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    Sarah Dessen
    “So you're always honest," I said.
    "Aren't you?"
    "No," I told him. "I'm not."
    "Well, that's good to know, I guess."
    "I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways."
    "How'd you mean it, then?"
    "I just...I don't always say what I feel."
    "Why not?"
    "Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
    "Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
    tags: lies, truth
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Look,” he said, “the point is there’s no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you’re left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst.”
    If you expect the worst, you’re never disappointed,” I pointed out.
    Yeah, but who lives like that?”
    ― Sarah Dessen
    tags: choices, expect, hope, lock-and-key, negative, positive
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    Sarah Dessen
    “It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder―or impossible―to lose.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
    tags: ability, achievement, treasured, worth
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    Sarah Dessen
    “People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
    tags: eli, failure
    1340 likes

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    Sarah Dessen
    “Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.
    -Maggie”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
    tags: friendship, honesty
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?”
    ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
    tags: dexter, love
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  • #16
    Sarah Dessen
    “The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote”
    ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
    tags: love
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    Sarah Dessen
    “I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: appearances, flaws, looks, pretty
    706 likes

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    Sarah Dessen
    “You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.”
    ― Sarah Dessen
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    Sarah Dessen
    “I meant what I said to you. I wasn't playing some kind of summer game. Everything I said was true, from the first day. EVERY GODDAMN WORD.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
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    Sarah Dessen
    “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.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
    tags: just-litsen, sarah-dessen, time
    6528 likes

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    Sarah Dessen
    “That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
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    Sarah Dessen
    “But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: inspirational, the-notebook
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: love, marriage
    16860 likes

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  • #30
    Nicholas Sparks
    “I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks
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