Quotes from: Sarah Dessen

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Silence is so freaking loud

280

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.

245

Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn’t make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you’re doing it out of fear.

238

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

214

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

205

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

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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.

139

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.

128

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.

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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.