Once and for All
Sarah Dessen
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The dead aren't the only ones who vanish: you, too, can disappear in plain sight if enough is taken from you. I was still missing, in many ways. And I wasn't sure I wanted to be found.”
“It's about the courage to go for what you want, not just what you think you need. Sometimes we don't even know what that is.”
“Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all.”
“You stop believing in wishes when the only one you want to make can never come true.”
“But you never know what you can do until you try, and if you're lucky, what you love will always be waiting for you”
“You can’t measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments. Some in life are light, like a touch. Others, you can’t help but stagger beneath.”
“Everything in life had its phases, and if you were smart, you learned to appreciate them all. What really mattered, though, were the people in those moments with you. Memories are what we have and what we keep, and I held mine close. The ones I knew well, like a night on the beach with a boy who would always live in my heart, and the ones yet to come with another.”
“I put my pen to the paper and began to write. I’d made so many wishes for so many couples quietly in my head as they drove away, but writing the words out made it seem more real, possible. For them, and maybe for me. FOR YOU, I WISH FOR SECOND CHANCES. I folded it shut, then put it on the wall before I could change my mind, right above Jilly’s. As Michael Salem called out to her and she started his way, I crossed the backyard, moving toward the music. When I looked back at the wish wall from a distance, it was a sea of squares: I couldn’t even find mine among them. So many things we ask for, hope for, prayers put out into a world so wide: there was no way they could all be answered. But you had to keep asking. If you didn’t, nothing even had a chance of coming true.”
“Sometimes forgetting was just as bad as remembering.”
“I don't think anybody ever really knows what's going to happen," he said. "We're all just out here hoping for the best.”
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Book Keywords:
love, future, fate, grief-and-loss, hope, life, romance, second-chances, wishes
