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The Truth About Forever QUOTES

The Truth About Forever QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " I like flaws. I think they make things interesting. "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever

3 " He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that made out in the hallways between classes, and got annoyed at even the slightest sappy moments in movies. But I knew he cared about me: he just conveyed it more subtly, as concise with expressing this emotion as he was with everything else. It was in the way he'd put his hand on the small of my back, for instance, or how he'd smile at me when I said something that surprised him. Once I might have wanted more, but I'd come around to his way of thinking in the time we'd been together. And we were together, all the time. So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know. "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever

4 " I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well. "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever

5 " That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking. "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever

6 " It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count. "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever

7 " Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time. "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever

8 " We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe even forever.
That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now. "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever

9 " I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one.
It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run. "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever

10 " But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right. "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever

11 " But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear. "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever

12 " 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. "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever

13 " I knew that 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. "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever

14 " 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. "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever

15 " As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on my way. Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving meastounded, amazed and most of all, alive. "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever

16 " I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered. "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever

17 " What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive. "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever

18 " Macy: “In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.”
Wes: “How do you win?” he asked
Macy: “That,” I said, “is such a boy question. "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever

19 " But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential. "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever

20 " You said the other day life was long,' I shot back. 'Which is it?'

'It's both,' she said, shrugging. 'It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.'

Kristy and Macy; p.135 "

― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever