"You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances."
— Sarah Dessen

"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."
— D.H. Lawrence (Lady Chatterley's Lover)

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

"I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed. "
— Sarah Dessen

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

"I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.
"Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?"
I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

"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)

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?"
— Chris Rock

"Don't think or judge, just listen."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong."
— Sarah Dessen

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
— Mark Twain

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."
— C.S. Lewis

"Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet."
— Aristotle

"I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it."
— Taylor Swift

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

"Angry people are not always wise."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"You never know what you have till you've lost it"
— Alyson Noel (Evermore)

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein