“All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”
More from Sarah Dessen on Life
“it's a lot easier to be lost than found.”
“Isn't it weird the way you remember things, when someone's gone?”
“You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.”
“When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.”
“If this was my forever, I didn't want to spend another second of it here.”
“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.”
“That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are”
“The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.”
“But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.”
“But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Henry Miller
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Joseph Campbell
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Virginia Woolf
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Cormac McCarthy
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Lord Byron
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Paulo Coelho
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Margaret Atwood
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”