My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn’t happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they’re important ones… you might as well hold on to them.
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key (via kittielitterbox)
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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 (via writing—quotes)
It’s a lot easier to be lost than found. It’s the reason we’re always searching and rarely discovered; so many locks, not enough keys
— Sarah Dessen (Lock and Key)
Some things don’t last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby (via fuckyeah-literature)
You can’t just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.
— “Someone Like You” Sarah Dessen (via hushedsweetnothings)
When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.
— Vincent Starrett (via taylorbooks)
I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
— L.M. Montgomery (via hollyreads)
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
— (via effyeahyoungadultlit)
Lost love is still love… It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle with their hair… Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.
— The 5 People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom (via gabbykirsten98)