Sarah Dessen Firsts Quotations

I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that.

Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible

It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.

In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.

I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.

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.

Can she be divorced?" I asked. "And famous for her commercials and ideas?" She can be anything," Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. "And so can you.

Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie of all.

Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together? Dexter: You're here, aren't you?

And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.

This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.

The first boy was always the hardest.

I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

I always say that teenagers are the first to know if you're pandering to them.

It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will.