Saint Anything Quotes

“Just because a person isn't talking about something doesn't mean it's not on their mind. Often, in fact, it's why they won't speak of it.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

“As I shut the door and started to walk away, I heard him say, "Hey. Sydney."
"Yeah?"
"You had on a shirt with mushrooms on it, and your hair was pulled back. Silver earrings. Pepperoni slice. No lollipop."
I just looked at him, confused. Layla was walking toward us now.
"The first time you came into Seaside," he said. "You weren't invisible, not to me. Just so you know.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

“You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

“Nobody was all bad, I was learning. Even the worst person had someone who cared about them at some point" - Sydney Stanford”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

“Each time I thought I'd felt all I could for him, there was more.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

“My own life felt flat and sad too much of the time; it was reassuring, somehow, to lose myself in someone else's.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

“It was one thing to let these thoughts haunt the dark spaces of my mind, but another entirely to put them into the light, making them real.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

“You only really fall apart in front of people you know can piece you back together.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

“You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

“I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall part and see options instead of endings.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

“When faced with the scariest of things, all you want is to turn away. But you can't. That's why it's not only important for us to be seen, but to have someone look for us, as well.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

“You never know what lay ahead; the future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

“But in this life on earth we have not only the fear but the certainty that we shall lose it. For one day we must die. Therefore true happiness... lasting, everlasting happiness cannot be our lot on earth. Nor could it be otherwise. For everlasting happiness is only another name for God.”
― Louis de Wohl, The Quiet Light: A Novel About Thomas Aquinas