Sarah Dessen Quotes

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.

Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.

Only time - whatever that may be - will tell.

It'll be hard, but life moves fast-we'll see each other again. I know that. I can feel that. Just like I can feel how much you care for me and how much I love you

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

All I get is tomorrow.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.

It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.

If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are?

Let me know, Iain." "Let you know what?" "If you're going to keep her or not." "And if I'm not?" "Then I am.

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.

Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.

The problem with time, I've learned, whether it's those first two weeks I got to spend with you, or the final two months I got to spend with him, eventually time always runs out. I have no idea where you are out there in the world, John. But I understand that I lost the right to know these things long ago. No matter how many years go by, I know one thing to be as true as ever was - I'll see you soon then.

To-morrow is ah, whose?

I don't know what the future holds.

Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.

What I don't know is what the unexpected might be.

Our brightest dreams and our greatest fears are just over the horizon.

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.