Sarah > Sarah's Quotes

“She was so stupid. Such a stupid, stupid girl.

For ever thinking she could be admired, adored, or noticed. For every thinking she could be anything at all.”
― Marissa Meyer, Fairest

“Just one more fantasy that wouldn’t come true. Just one more lie she’d constructed for herself to escape into, never realizing she was welding the bars of her own cage.”
― Marissa Meyer, Fairest

“She cried for the girl who had never belonged. A girl who tried so hard, harder than anyone else, and still never had anything to show for it.”
― Marissa Meyer, Fairest

“I was trying, but was it enough? I felt like I was adding glue, just a little at a time, enough to fix the cracks but never be truly fixed.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“It’s so weird, to know you’re crazy and not be able to do anything about it, you know? It’s not like you believe yourself to be normal. You know there is a problem. But you can’t figure a way through to fixing it. Because you can’t be sure, you know?”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“You may be tested by the flames, but you need not burn.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Everything hurts.” Only Grayson Hawthorne could say that and still sound utterly bulletproof. “It hurts all the time, Avery, but I know the man I was raised to be.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Let your anger light a fire that the world will never extinguish.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“It was okay to be afraid sometimes, for only then could you choose to be brave.”
― Marissa Meyer, Supernova

“Even if no one else loves you, you can. Even if no one else ever puts you first, you can.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.”
― Sarah Dessen, That Summer

“You made me hungry," I told Jameson. "for everything. I want the world now." I held his gaze in a way that dared him to look away. "And I want it with you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Thoughts are only thoughts.They are not you, you belong to yourself even when your thoughts don't.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“To be all right implies an impossible phase. We hope for mostly right on the best of our days.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“I know you must be hurting now, but don't give up hope on future happiness, and all the good things that are still to come for you.”
― Marissa Meyer, Fairest

“But sometimes a person’s brain starts cycling. No matter what you do, the same thoughts just keep repeating, over and over. You get stuck in a loop, and when you’re inside that loop, you can’t see past it. You’ll keep coming up with the same possibilities, to no end, because the answers you need—they’re outside the loop. Distractions aren’t just distractions. Sometimes they can break you out of the loop.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“You have to learn to take what you want—and never, ever let someone take what you don’t want to give.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“I'm not the glass ballerina," I said firmly. "I'm not going to shatter.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Illusions were dangerous, and being tricked into believing things that weren’t real was often the most dangerous thing of all.”
― Marissa Meyer, Fairest

“Yeah, but broken isn't the same as unfixable.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“I'll be safe and happy when I'm no longer afraid of my own mind.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“...the walls have been bleeding for years, and no one else sees it.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“Once we have total power, what's to keep us from becoming villains ourselves?”
― Marissa Meyer, Archenemies

“One cannot be awed who has no soul. Just as one cannot be brave who has no fear.”
― Marissa Meyer, Supernova

“One cannot be afraid,” he said, “when they have nothing left to lose.”
― Marissa Meyer, Supernova

“I believe I'm a good person. But what if I'm not?”
― Marissa Meyer, Instant Karma

“It's like, Jude, for example," I say, quietly, careful with my words. "He's so nice. Everybody likes him. He just gets along with people, everywhere he goes. I know I'm not that. And Ari, she's so talented, and so passionate about music, but I'm not really passionate about anything, other than wanting to succeed. To do my best. But I can make plans, and I can stay organized, and if a teacher assigns a report, I'm going to write the best darn report they've ever seen. If I'm throwing a gala, I'm going to throw a party that no one will ever forget. I can do that. And if I can impress people, then maybe they won't notice that I'm not witty or beautiful or... fun.”
― Marissa Meyer, Instant Karma

“It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder―or impossible―to lose.”
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

“But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it.
-Eli”
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride