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  • #1
    Sarah Dessen
    “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
    Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

  • #2
    Sarah Dessen
    “Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”
    Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

  • #3
    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.”
    Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

  • #4
    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.”
    Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

  • #5
    Sarah Dessen
    “You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.”
    Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    Sarah Dessen
    “What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. We had many families over time. Our family of origin, the family we created, and the groups you moved through while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. You can't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build your world from it.”
    Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    Sarah Dessen
    “Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.”
    Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

  • #10
    Sarah Dessen
    “I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.”
    Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

  • #11
    Sarah Dessen
    “You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.”
    Sarah Dessen

  • #12
    Sarah Dessen
    “Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it. it's like forever, always changing. for any of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. you can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count. what you have to decide is how you want your life to be. if your forever was ending tomorrow, is this how you'd want to have spent it?”
    Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

  • #13
    Sarah Dessen
    “It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school.”
    Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

  • #14
    Jodi Picoult
    “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #15
    Jodi Picoult
    “Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #16
    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #17
    Jodi Picoult
    “You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”
    Jodi Picoult, Mercy

  • #18
    Jodi Picoult
    “There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.”
    Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

  • #19
    Jodi Picoult
    “I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.”
    Jodi Picoult, The Pact

  • #20
    Jodi Picoult
    “You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.”
    Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

  • #21
    Jodi Picoult
    “Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?”
    Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

  • #22
    Jodi Picoult
    “Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #23
    Jodi Picoult
    “When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”
    Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

  • #24
    Jodi Picoult
    “In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.”
    Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

  • #25
    Jodi Picoult
    “If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?”
    Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

  • #26
    Jodi Picoult
    “Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up.”
    Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

  • #27
    Jodi Picoult
    “Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #28
    Stieg Larsson
    “Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

  • #29
    Stieg Larsson
    “She went around with the attitude that she would rather be beaten to death than take any shit.”
    Stieg Larsson

  • #30
    Stieg Larsson
    “Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire



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