Sarah Dessen on Justice
Browse 10 quotations attributed to Sarah Dessen, catalogued under justice, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Sarah Dessen, entry #80165: "It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself."
Attributed to Sarah Dessen, entry #163558: "Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done."
10 Quotes by Sarah Dessen on Justice
"It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself."
"Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done."
"It's important." I could hear him moving around, adjusting things, before he came to sit beside me. "Okay," he said. "Take a look."
"I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once."
"I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers."
"It was just perfect, just right all at once."
"There were moments - when Jeopardy came on, in the car during radio trivia challenges, or for practically any question I couldn't answer in any subject - that Rogerson simply amazed me. I started to seek out facts, just to stump him, but it never worked. He was that sharp."
"And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice."
"When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features were there. but the colors, the zigzags and plaids, the bits and pieces that made up me, Halley, weren't yet in place. Scarlett's vibrant reds and golds helped some, but I was still waiting."
"And she was good to me: strong, fun, and fiercely loyal. And if I didn't have many other friends because of her-most girls were intimidated by her looks, or thought she was too pushy, or just flat-out feared for their boyfriends-it never bothered me. I never missed having a wide, thick circle of girlfriends: Rina was more than enough. We were comfortable with each other's flaws and weaknesses, so we stuck together and kept to ourselves."